[NeXus-tech] NXdetector manual

[Wintersberger, Eugen]

Hi Mark 
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 17:22 +0100, Mark Koennecke wrote:
> Eugen,
> 
> hold on. I branched the nexus-definitions and now have a manual which uses
> interfaces. Which happens to make NXdetector far more manageable. I, too
> have found a selection of rather dubious fields in NXdetector. Though I 
> have a different set
> then you.

I would have wondered if you would have the same set ;). 

> 
> I did this now because I had the time to do so. 

Same with me. 

> But I would rather 
> prefer to keep this
> bag of worms closed for the moment in order to get the PX definition 
> forward. 
> I intended to
> get this discussed after the PX stuff and well before the NIAC Meeting. 
> Interfaces, IMHO,
> require discussion and a vote by the full NIAC.

The document I am working on is rather a kind of 'best practice' guide
that I would like to use here at DESY. I thought it is a good idea to
let you know but it was (at least for the moment) not intended as an
official Nexus document. I agree with you that we first should get the
PX definition through. 

> 
> If you are interested, checkout 
> https://svn.nexusformat.org/definitions/branches/interfaces,
> build a manual and have a look.

I will definitely have a look on this ;)

> 
> Regards,
> 
>              Mark
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/25/2013 05:04 PM, Wintersberger, Eugen wrote:
> > Hi folks
> >   on the last telecon Herbert requested a manual of how to use NXdetector
> > for more complex setups. I started now with writing such a manual.
> > However I already ran into problems with rather simple things. Some of
> > the fields in NXdetector are undocumented or their documentation is
> > incomplete.
> >
> > I made a list of the fields I find confusing on the wiki
> > http://wiki.nexusformat.org/NXdetector_documentation
> >
> > Some technical question concerning the manual: I started to do this in
> > Latex as it is just simpler to use than Wikis or Sphinx (in particular
> > if you have sequences of code that you want to refer to in the text) -
> > at least in my opinion ;) Is this ok for you, or would you prefer a
> > different format?
> > It would be a good idea to have a GIT repository somewhere available for
> > others to download. Shall I create one on github or do we have a
> > suitable location somewhere else?
> >
> > regards
> >    Eugen
> >
> >
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