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-<h2>How to Run AliRoot</h2>
-<h3>For the impatient user</h3>
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+<LI><A HREF="#For the impatient">For the impatient user</A></LI>
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+<LI><A HREF="#A more detailed view">A more detailed view</A></LI>
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+<h3><A HREF="#Content" NAME="For the impatient">For the impatient user</A></h3>
<p> <a href="picts/menubar.gif">
<img src="picts/menubar.gif" alt="AliRoot menu bar"
<p> <b>Run</b>
-<p> generates to generate an event with the number of tracks and the
+<p> generates an event with the number of tracks and the
configuration as specified in <A
HREF="roothtml/examples/Config.C.html">Config.C</A>. The hits deposited
<p> <KBD> root[0] .x <A HREF="roothtml/examples/lego.C.html">lego.C</A> </KBD>
-<p> to change the parameters of the lego run you could specify them
-in the calling sequence of the RunLego method
-ones type:
+<p> the parameters of the lego run can be specified
+in the calling sequence of the RunLego method as follows:
<p> <KBD> root[3] gAlice->RunLego (your list of parameters) </KBD>
<p> This shows a new menu from which you can draw the geometry tree for the
Alice detectors. Clicking with the right button on the pad with the name of
-a geometrical element give access to a number of graphic and inspect
+a geometrical element gives access to a number of graphic and inspect
functions. Double-clicking on the pad generates a drawing of the specifications
of the geometry of the element.
<p> <KBD>root [ ] .q</KBD>
<h3>A more detailed view</h3>
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<p> After startup of the <b>aliroot</b> program the simulation
infrastructure is initialised by the <a
name for this script is <a
href="roothtml/examples/Config.C.html">Config.C</a>. This script
initialises the version of the different detectors and of the generator to
-be used. In particular some generators can generated a fixed number of
+be used. In particular some generators can generate a fixed number of
particles and in this case this number is an argument of the generator
constructor.
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<p> In particular all the drawing functions of Geant3 are available via
-this interface. To draw a cut view of the ITS following commands
-could be used
+this interface. To draw a cut view of the ITS the following commands
+can be used
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+<LI><A HREF="#Code">Code development and user environment</A>
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<p><li> Install <a href="http://root.cern.ch">ROOT</a> and define the
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-<h2>Code development and user environment</h2>
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<p>If the ALICE environment is set up correctly, the
<var>$ALICE_ROOT/lib/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET</var> directory is in the shared
<p>Therefore in order to develop one or more packages locally
(let's say the TPC) and make modifications, the following steps should be
performed. We suppose here that the remote cvs server has been setup correctly
-as explained in the <a href="management.html">code management</a> section.
+as explained in the <a href="../development.html">code development</a> section.
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-<h2>Overview of AliRoot</h2>
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<font size=+2 color=red><blink>This part is under construction.</blink>
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-<h3>General AliRoot architecture</h3>
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+<LI><A HREF="#General">General AliRoot architecture</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="#Virtual">Virtual MonteCarlo schema</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="#AliRoot">AliRoot flow of control</A></LI>
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+<h2><A HREF="#Content" NAME="General">General AliRoot architecture</A></h2>
<p> This picure is a general schema of the AliRoot architecture.
<center><img src="picts/aliroot_schema.gif" height=400></center>
-<h3>Virtual MonteCarlo schema</h3>
+<h2><A HREF="#Content" NAME="Virtual">Virtual MonteCarlo schema</A></h2>
<p> This picture illustrates the concept of Virtual MonteCarlo schema
as it is implemented by AliRoot.
<center><img src="picts/virtualmc2.gif" height=300></center>
-<h3>AliRoot flow of control</h3>
+<h2><A HREF="#Content" NAME="AliRoot">AliRoot flow of control</A></h2>
<p> This picture illustrates the AliRoot flow of control.
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