This text was created as a help file and the best way to use it is to search entries of interest through the alphabetical index. A contents paragraph is also available. The topics in the contents paragraph are organized in chapters, though the consecutive topics were not written as a book-like sequence, but rather as encyclopedic notes.
Some topics are very short, and some are more detailed, extending to several pages.
In most of the topics the literature references are given inside the text. The topics which names are written in upper case letters are mainly descriptions of software tools. Here is the Contents section only.