Scientific Aids

Users can benefit from the online documentation available through the web versions of the instrument handbook and proposal instructions. At a crude level, a user could bring up a web browser and look through this information during proposal development in the APT. It would be better to integrate that information into the APT and make it as context specific as possible. For example, choosing help on a possible aperture choice in the Visual Target Tuner could lead to the display of information about that aperture in the instrument handbook. Determining all the appropriate entry points in the documentation and relating them to the APT is a worthwhile, but likely labor intensive, task. Efforts along these lines were done to link the proposal instructions to ped.