[NeXus-committee] NeXus paper v10, NIAC

[Herbert J. Bernstein]

I committed a few minor edits from a copy-edit pass by my wife, Frances:

Index: nexus14aip.tex
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--- nexus14aip.tex    (revision 39)
+++ nexus14aip.tex    (working copy)
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 \author{Frederick Akeroyd}
 \affiliation{ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK}

-\author{Herbert J Bernstein}
+\author{Herbert J. Bernstein}
 \affiliation{imgCIF, Dowling College, USA}

 \author{Aaron S. Brewster}
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 Since 2006, NeXus\cite{nxold} has undergone substantial refocusing,
 refinement and enhancement as described in this paper.

-Historically, neutron and X-ray facilities choose to store their data
in a plethora of
+Historically, neutron and X-ray facilities have chosen to store their
data in a plethora of
 home-grown data formats. This scheme has a number of drawbacks
addressed by NeXus:
 \begin{itemize}
 \item It makes the life of traveling scientists unnecessarily
difficult as they have to deal with multiple files
@@ -236,8 +236,8 @@
 is linked  into a \texttt{NXsubentry}. The NXsubentry follows the hierarchy of
 \texttt{NXentry}. But it will typically only link to the data required by the
 application definition for the specific experimental technique. The
point of this scheme
-is that human and computerized users can easily locate method
specific data. But thereby
-maintaing the full view of the experiment.
+is that human and computerized users can easily locate method
specific data while
+maintaining the full view of the experiment.

 \begin{figure}
 \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{figure2}
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
 \end{itemize}

 NeXus allows multi-dimensional scans too. This makes it very simple
to produce meaningful slices through data
-volumes even with NeXus-agnostic software (like hdfview).
Interrupting a multi-dimensional scan may, depending
+volumes even with NeXus-agnostic software ({\it e.g.} hdfview).
Interrupting a multi-dimensional scan may, depending
 on the software used, leave some of the data in an uninitialised
state (usually the HDF5 fill value).


@@ -389,8 +389,8 @@

 \section{Uptake of NeXus}

-NeXus is already in use as the main data format at facilities like
Soleil, Diamond, SINQ, SNS, Lujan/LANL
-and KEK. Other facilities like ISIS, DESY and the $\mu$SR community
are in the process of moving towards
+NeXus is already in use as the main data format at many facilities
including Soleil, Diamond, SINQ, SNS, Lujan/LANL
+and KEK. Other facilities including ISIS, DESY and the $\mu$SR
community are in the process of moving towards
 NeXus as their data format. At LBNL, NeXus is currently being adapted
for XFEL serial crystallographic data.



On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Mark Könnecke <mark.koennecke at psi.ch> wrote:
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> the feedback on the NeXus paper has died down somewhat.  I need all coauthors consent in order
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