This Manual is broken down into several chapters,
one for each of the classes within the UTK ATLSS library. Each chapter
describes each of the member functions for a class which are
available to the user. The description of each function is broken
down into a set collections of key points: Summary, Description, Return
Value, See Also and Example. The Summary section gives lists which
files much be included in order to utilize the described member function,
how the member function is declared including what type the function returns
and what arguments is can accept or expects, and a short description of
the meaning of each argument. The Description section gives a overview
of what the function does. The Return Value section describes the
meaning of the value returned from the function if any. The See Also
section gives a list of related member function and classes. The
Example section gives a small example using the member function and well
as the results of the example.
The document uses several different fonts and colors
to indicate special words or terms. The courier
font is used principally to denote code or code fragments.
It is also occasionally used to indicate text which is typed at a shell
command line and responses from the system to those commands. The word
this in blue italics within descriptive
text ( i.e. not code or code fragments) is used to denote the C++ reserved
word "this" which is used in member functions occasionally to explicitly
refer to the class object for which the member function was called.
(See a C++ manual for more details.)