Hi Folks, There is a new version of Athena (0.8.013) ready for use. Along with several small bug fixes are significant improvements to Athena's (but, sadly, not Artemis's) documentation. Because the new documentation involves lots of external files, there is a new version of the big Windows installer on Matt's web site. Unix and OSX people should grab the latest source code tarball from my web site. Windows people should grab the latest installer package from Matt's web site. Along with some work on the on-line document, I have written a selection of demos for Athena. The demos are project files with data that demonstrates some feature of Athena and Ifeffit and uses the journal space to provide an explanation and suggestions for things to try to better understand the demonstrated feature. You can browse the demo projects by selecting the appropriate item from the Help menu. When you read in a project that way, the journal will automatically open up so you can start reading about the feature being demonstrated. For many of you on this list, the demos probably explain things with which you are already familiar. But check them out -- you may learn about a feature you didn't know about. And, as you introduce new users to Athena, point them in the direction of the demo projects. Regards, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b, X24c, U4b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/