And while I'm about it ... it occurred to me that these questions above could well have been asked before, but as a newcomer to this list it is quite difficult to trawl through the archives to find relevant answers. Is there any possibility and/or interest in some kind of index of these discussions?
Yay! Excellent suggestion. In fact, in one of my recent rants about all the ways that people could contribute to the ifeffit family without actually writing code for ifeffit, athena, or artemis, I mentioned precisely this.
I have been with the ifeffit list from the beginning and I have many times wished their were an index.
So... any takers? Here's a place to start: http://www.htdig.org/
Matt, Bruce et al. A search-generated index (or search function for the archive pages such as htdig) would indeed be comprehensive, useful, and easy(ish) to impliment. However, what I originally had in mind was a human-collated index (more like a 'contents page'), which might make it easier for people to find related groups of contributions - although more time-consuming to put together. Perhaps it would be useful to have both types (the former would certainly help in compiling the latter). What do y'all think? -- Peter Southon Research Fellow School of Chemistry University of Sydney Australia ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: www-mail.usyd.edu.au
Hi Peter, On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Peter Southon wrote:
A search-generated index (or search function for the archive pages such as htdig) would indeed be comprehensive, useful, and easy(ish) to impliment. However, what I originally had in mind was a human-collated index (more like a 'contents page'), which might make it easier for people to find related groups of contributions - although more time-consuming to put together. Perhaps it would be useful to have both types (the former would certainly help in compiling the latter).
What do y'all think?
Thanks... I agree that adding search capabilities to the mailing list would be good, but is not necessarily the highest priority. I'm sure I completely understand your suggestion. Do you mean something like a page of hints and ideas taken from the mailing list? Or do you mean something else? Related to this (or, at least the way I choose to take your idea!), I re-started the Ifeffit FAQ. The old FAQ was painful even for me to edit, and had fallen way behind. The new FAQ is searchable, and changes to entries are saved. More importantly, it allows anyone (yes, anyone) to add or edit FAQ entries through a web form. I don't have the old FAQ completely moved over, but there's enough to get the idea of how this will work: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/ifeffit/faqwiz Again, **anyone** can add and edit entries in this FAQ, provided they have the password (which is xafs -- see question 1.2). For example, you might add an entry about how to define and model Debye-Waller Factors.... Could this FAQ sufficiently fill the role you're thinking of? --Matt PS: The FAQ **sections** are currently set and can't be altered except by me. Currently the sections are: 1: "General Features" 2: "Getting and Installing Ifeffit" 3: "Data Handling and Processing Questions" 4: "Plotting Questions" 5: "Autobk/Spline/Background Subtraction Questions" 6: "Fourier Transform Questions" 7: "Running Feff" 8: "Feffit/XAFS Modeling Questions" 9: "Athena Questions" 10: "Artemis Questions" 11: "SixPack Questions" 12: "XANES and XANES Analysis Questions" 13: "Programming/Scripting with Ifeffit" 14: "General XAFS Questions" At this point, most of these are empty. If you have suggestions for new sections, please let me know.
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