On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:56:25 AM John Hayes wrote:
Thank you for your reply. I find your lack of faith...disturbing,
You are criticizing me for not having faith in you and your email address is ginger.jesus@. I think I would be well justified in ignoring you out of hand. Begrudgingly, I won't. And I will address your problem as best as I can. I want to stress that the quality of a response to an issue raised on this mailing list is highly correlated to the quality of the bug report. You wanted me to look into a problem importing the reference channel and you presented a problem that appeared to be one of experimental design -- a problem common enough to have been discussed within the last few weeks. Reasonably enough, I responded to the problem as I understood it.
but understand your concerns about the data I sent as they were just test files we collected when we were setting up the beam. However, I do not think the abridged range is the cause of the problem, as I wasl having issues importing real data as well (i.e. -150 eV pre-edge and k=12 post edge). These spectra files are attached, along with the error log file and the dathena.log file that was recorded when importing these files.
You are correct. When importing multiple data sets through the HXMA filetype plugin, the reference channels for all but the first file are imported incorrectly. I am not yet sure what is causing the problem, but I will look into it and try to have a solution in place for the next release. Unfortunately, the only workaround entirely within Athena is to import the data one at a time. Another possibility is to write yourself a little program that strips out columns 2 (or possibly 4), 6, 7, and 13-20 from the original files and writes out files that Athena can read without the plugin. B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 Homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel Software: https://github.com/bruceravel