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Organisation of the book

Chapters 1 to 3 are recommended to be read by beginners at starting their work with TV. Chapters 4 and 5 are intended as introduction to the beginner and as reference guide to the more sophisticated user respectively. Chapter 6 is a reference guide to all commands of TV in alphabetical order. A more detailed description of the contents of the chapters is given in the following list:

Chapter 1
Describes the typographic conventions used to emphasize certain parts of the text, as there are for example commands and filenames.
Chapter 2
Gives an introduction to the main topics of TV with examples to each item. The basic commands are explained in their most simple form and you will be able to use the program to do simple evaluation after reading this chapter.
Chapter 3
Describes the basic usage of TV starting from commandline arguments, windows and input modes via the usage of the mouse and the command- and menu-concept to the defining of hotkeys, writing of command files and sending commands from outer space.
Chapter 4
Shows how to load one or more spectra and perform all necessary operations to analyze the data, as there are choosing of the best window type, calibration, recalibration, normalization, arithmetic operations, integration and fit as well as peaksearch.
Chapter 5
Explains all necessary operations to work with matrices, cuts, projections, spectra and buffers.
Chapter 6
Shows a detailed list of all TV-commands. This chapter is addressed to advanced users who want to know all the mysteries and secrets. It lists all commands in alphabetical order and gives a short description for each of them.

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Andreas Fitzler
7/13/2000