Conventions Used In This Manual - OPTICOM OPERA - V 3.5 User Manual

P R E F A C E
a summary of the functionalities, which you will always need, regardless of
specific measurement algorithms.
The next two Chapters,
Chapter 6, "Telephony Band Voice Quality Testing"
measurement setups and methods for both principle applications. Depending
on the options installed in your OPERA™ system, you may need to refer to one
or the other, or both chapters.
Chapter 7, Automation and Programming
the commandline and outlines other possibilities of automating tasks in OPERA.
These chapters are followed by the
"References"
In the
collection of papers and articles along with the relevant standards
documentation.

Conventions Used in This Manual

In this manual we will use some conventions in order to ease the understanding
of the operation. For instance,
You will also find a lot of figures displaying screen shots. Please note that due to
the ongoing development and software update process, the screen shots of your
system might differ slightly from the examples in this manual. In the case of
extreme differences, please do not hesitate to inform us.
Quite often you will experience gray shaded symbols
S Y M B O L -
paragraphs. The legend on the left explains the meaning of the most commonly
L E G E N D
used symbols. They will point out passages in the manual containing
information, important hints, basic menu options and command line
Information
parameters. The little "book symbol" indicates that more detailed information is
Important Hint
available in the papers, books or articles cited in the references.
Menu Options
Enter parameters
see References
Chapter 5, "Wide Band Audio Quality Testing"
, a "Glossary"
Appendix you will find some background information, such as a
•
all menu options that can be selected will be in bold style,
•
all command line parameters that you might need to type will be
printed in the courier type style,
•
basic command line keywords will also be in courier bold
type style.
explains how to use OPERA from
"Technical Specifications"
and finally the "Index"
6
, deal with the specific
.
next to the text
, and
, the