2 1 76 22 CompHEP service This is an explanation of the CompHEP interface facilities. You can toggle on/off color and sound for the CompHEP session as well as choose the most appropriate fonts for your X-terminal. Just edit the 'comphep.ini' file. We hope that syntax there is self-explanatory. There are the following elements of the user interface in the CompHEP package: On-line Help, Menu, Message, String Editor, Table Editor and Diagram Viewer. You can control them using Arrow, Enter, Esc, Backspace, PgUp/PgDn (on some keyboards there are Prev/Next instead of PgUp/PgDn) keys and/or mouse. CompHEP is sensitive to the left mouse button release. I On-line Help At almost every point when CompHEP is waiting for your input, you can press the F1 key to get context-sensitive help information. If the screen height in not enough to display the full help message, you will see PgDn mark in the right-bottom corner of the help window. To get the next page of the message press the PgDn key or click on the mark. To close the help window, press the Esc key or click the asterisk in the upper-left corner of the help border. II Menu The menu program displays a list of menu functions. One of them is highlighted. Use the arrow keys or a mouse click to highlight a desired function. Press the Enter key or click on the highlighted function to activate it. If the menu is too large, you will see only a part of it. Use the PgDn/PgUp buttons or click on the corresponding marks in the menu corners to scroll. In order to get back to the previous menu level press the Esc key or click the asterisk in the top-left corner of the menu border. The menu program is also sensitive to the function keys. The list of active function keys depends on the program point and is displayed on the bottom line of the screen. Generally the function keys activate the following programs: F1 Help : displays a help message about the highlighted menu function. F2 Manual : browses this text. F3 Models : displays the contents of the current model of particles interaction. F4 Diagrams: browses generated Feynman diagrams. F5 Results : views and deletes CompHEP output files and renames the output directory. F9 Quit : quits the CompHEP session. To call one of these programs just press the functional key or click on the corresponding symbol on the bottom line of the screen. III Messages CompHEP writes informational and dialog messages during the session. The informational messages finish with the 'Press any key' record. You can continue your work either following this instruction or by clicking the mouse on the message area. The dialog message has a label '(Y/N?)'. You can press the 'Y' or 'N' key or just click on them in the message window to answer 'Yes' or 'No'. IV String Editor If you would like to enter a new process or change a value of a parameter, CompHEP calls the String Editor. As a rule, the previous information about this item is available and the previous string is displayed. If you would like to edit the previous string, use left/right arrow keys or the mouse click to put the cursor at the desired position. Otherwise, if the fist input character is a printing symbol, the previous string will be deleted. The backspace key works as usual. To terminate input, press the Enter key to accept the string, or the Esc key to go back and cancel your input. V Table Editor VI Diagram Viewer Press the F2 key inside of the corresponding program to get the help information.