Information on how to navigate the collection and tips on using the DjVu plug-in.

Using the DjVu Plug-in

The full documentation of the DjVu plug-in can be viewed by displaying a DjVu document (any document) and hitting the "?" key while the mouse pointer is in the document window (or by pressing the right mouse button and selecting "help" from the menu).

The following keyboard shortcuts are available when viewing a DjVu document. They greatly enhance the user experience:

Key/Action	Function
Left-Click and Drag	Pan around the image (more convenient than the scrollbars). Panning can also be done with the arrow keys.
Right-Click	Pop up the DjVu plug-in menu
Space, Enter	Go to the next page
Backspace	Go to the previous page
Page Down	Scroll page down. If at the bottom of the page, flip to the next page
Page Up	Scroll page up. If at the top of the page, flip to the previous page
+, =	Zoom In
-, _	Zoom Out
1, 2, 3	Change magnification to 100%, 200% and 300% respectively.
W	Zoom to Fit Width
P	Zoom to Fit Page
F, CTRL-F, F3	Search and Highlight String in Current Document
Hold Down CTRL Key	Magnifier

A few additional less-often used keyboard shortcuts are listed on the plug-in help page.

Browsing and Searching the Collection

Browsing and Searching the Table of Contents

Table of contents with hyperlinks to the articles are provided for each volume separately, and for the entire collection (a 460KB file). Click the "Table of Contents" button in the top frame to access them.

The table of content can also be searched for authors and titles. Select "Author/Titles, Vol 0-12" from the top frame menu next to the search field, then enter a search string.
NOTE 1: this is a simple string search. It does not allow multiple strings nor boolean search.
NOTE 2: the "most recent first"/"older first" menu is inoperative for title/author search (but it works for full-text search).

Alternatively, you can download the full table content (460KB) and use your browser's "find" function.

Full-text Search

Rudimentary full-text search capabilities are provided. Click on the menu next to the search field and select "full text, Vol 0-12", or one of the individual volumes. Then select chronological or reverse chronological order with the second menu. Then enter a search string and hit enter (or click the GO button).

Here is how the search field can be used:

• a single word will retrieve all documents where the word appears.
• a single string with an asterisk tacked at the end will retrieve all documents where the string appears as a word or as a substring in a word.
  example: "sara*"
• a list of word will retrieve documents where all the words appear near each other.
  example: "michael jordan"
• a list of words separated by the keyword OR will retrieve all documents where either of the words appear.
  example: "cun OR lecun"
• there is no way to "quote" search strings that contain blanks or special characters at this time.

NOTE: The full-text search is based on uncorrected text produced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This process is fairly accurate but not perfect.

URLs and Naming Convention

The simple naming convention allows users to easily jump directly to an article or bookmark a particular page. Here is how. Each article's URL is of the form:
[base-url]/djvu/nipsXX/YYYY.djvu
where XX is the volume number (possibly with leading zeros) and YYYY is the page number corresponding to the actual page number in the paper edition (also with leading zeros).

It is possible to point your browser to a particular page of an article by tacking CGI-style arguments to the URL. This allows you to point a friend to a particular page. Here is an example: http://nips.djvuzone.org/djvu/nips04/0579.djvu?djvuopts&page=7

Simple Annotations

You can doctor the URL of DjVu documents to highlight areas on a page, as shown in the following example:
have a look at this really cool formula.
The URL of this example is: djvu/nips05/0156.djvu?djvuopts&page=5&highlight=650,2330,1500,200,ff0000
The arguments of the highlight command are x,y,width,height (from the bottom left corner of the page) and RGB color.

The DjVu plug-in understands many such directives tacked to the URL. A complete list is available on the plug-in help page. To view the help page, display a DjVu document, then press the right mouse button and pick "help" from the DjVu menu.