[NeXus-tech] First draft of NeXus publication

Wed Jul 23 10:07:36 BST 2014

Pete,

Am 22.07.2014 um 20:29 schrieb Pete Jemian <jemian at anl.gov>:

> Shall we discuss this at the next telco?
> 

yes, we should, I forgot yesterday. Shall we seek input from the wider committte before that?

Mark

> On 7/17/2014 4:22 AM, Mark Könnecke wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I attached a new version with the comments from Pete, Herbert and Tobias
>> merged in. I also fixed the tables
>> and built a complete authors list with the tools provided by revtex. As
>> Tobias suggested, the source for the
>> paper are now on github, in the nexus_definitions/ csipaper directory.
>> Including the correct bibtex file.
>> Sorry, Pete.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>>      Mark
>> 
>> 
>> Am 15.07.2014 um 13:24 schrieb Tobias.Richter at diamond.ac.uk
>> <mailto:Tobias.Richter at diamond.ac.uk>:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I've made a few modifications to Pete's version.
>>> Why don't we put that file into the definitions repo on github?
>>> 
>>> There are two more comments I could not address easily:
>>> 
>>> Scans:
>>> I really think unrolling scans to 1D is a poor idea and multiple
>>> dimensions are legal.
>> 
>> Changed to reflect MD scans as currently described in the manual.
>> 
>>> But it also says you can discover what was scanned against what from
>>> the NXdata group. How does that work?
>>> 
>> 
>> You open the NXdata group of a scan and see:
>> 
>>    data[NP,xdim,ydim]
>>    rotation_angle[NP]
>>    polar_angle[NP]
>>   monitor1[NP]
>> 
>> and can deduce that rotation_angle and polar_angle were either varied or
>> logged during the
>> scan together with data collected on an area detector and a monitor.
>> 
>>> Application definitions:
>>> "data in a NeXus file is accessed by path"
>>> This is may be the intention of 60% of the people 60% of the time. The
>>> other 64% of the time this is wrong.
>> 
>> This results in 124% ? I changed this search for data.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>>      Mark
>> 
>> 
>>> If you can only have a single NXentry named "entry" there is no point
>>> in having an entry in the first place. We have to allow more than a
>>> single detector named "detector" and we need to encourage people
>>> writing software that is supposed to read NeXus files to look around
>>> for groups by type.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Tobias
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: NeXus-tech [mailto:nexus-tech-bounces at nexusformat.org] On Behalf
>>>> Of Pete Jemian
>>>> Sent: 14 July 2014 21:45
>>>> To: NeXus Technical sub-committee list
>>>> Subject: Re: [NeXus-tech] First draft of NeXus publication
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Mark:
>>>> 
>>>> Nice job.
>>>> 
>>>> Enclosed are my revisions.  Various spelling was changed and some other
>>>> changes.  Nothing very big.  Without the bibliography file, it was not
>>>> possible to build the complete PDF.  However, these changes compile by
>>>> latex (revtex) with no build errors.
>>>> 
>>>> Another URL citation for canSAS was added since that work is ongoing
>>>> and near completion as well.
>>>> 
>>>> The table organization that you present is most valuable.  This content
>>>> is now missing in the manual and not easy to deduce with such a
>>>> presentation.  Once you are settled on the design, I plan to put it
>>>> into the Design section at a "good" location.  (Suggestions are
>>>> welcome.)
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>>   Pete
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 7/14/2014 2:36 AM, Mark Könnecke wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> here is a first draft of a new publication on NeXus intended for
>>>> Reviews in Scientific Instrumentation (RSI).
>>>>> There are still two things wrong with this draft:
>>>>> 
>>>>> - The proper attribution of NIAC. I have contacted the AIP helpline
>>>> about how they want to have that done.
>>>>> - The lines in the tables are incorrect. I will fix this once we are
>>>> sure that this is the representation we
>>>>>  want.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think we can start discussing the content based on this draft.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When we are done with this I will ask an american colleague to
>>>>> proofread this. The journal wants american english which I find a
>>>> challenge.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I included the text source files for people who wish to edit
>>>>> themselves. But the revtex package is required to compile the latex.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Mark
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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