[Ifeffit] new release of Athena, Artemis, and Hephaestus

[Bruce Ravel]

Hi folks!

After a rather long hiatus, I have finally released a new source code tarball 
for my codes.  You can grab it from SourceForge or from my web site.  The 
linux, unix, and Max OSX users can run the horae_update script at any time.  
If history is any guide, Carlo will have new debian packages on SourceForge 
lickedysplit ;-)

I plan to build new Windows executables on Monday morning.  Hopefully there 
will be a Windows updater package soon after that.

The list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes is quite long.  Here is 
a summary of the most important new developments:

Athena:
** You can now rebin your data using Ifeffit's rebin() function.  Rebinning 
can be done on the fly in the column selection dialog as the data is imported 
or you can use the rebinning dialog which is found under the Data menu to 
rebin data already imported into Athena.
** After editing a parameter in one of the little text entry boxes, you can 
hit "enter" or "return" and the data will be replotted.  This is a keyboard 
shortcut for the red plot buttons.
** There are several cosmetic changes on the main page intended to convey more 
information about the state of a data group.  The large blue text in each 
section on the main page changes its shade of blue depending on whether the 
group is "up to date" with respect to that group of parameters.  This will 
make sense when you see it! 

Artemis:
** This is almost certainly the last release for which there will be distinct 
stable and development versions of Artemis.  Very soon I will be retiring the 
0.7 branch of Artemis and renumbering the development branch as Artemis 0.8.  
For now the "artemis" program still refers to Artemis 0.7 and the "diana" 
program still refers to the development version.  Soon, there will be no 
"diana" and "artemis" will refer to version 0.8.  Here is a short PDF 
document with lots of pictures describing the major changes between 0.7 and 
0.8:
     http://leonardo.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/misc/artemis0.8.pdf


Hephaestus:
** I added a fluorescence line finder which works almost exactly like the 
current edge finder.

I hope everyone enjoys the latest versions.  I encourage everyone to try out 
the development version of Artemis.  Have fun!

Bruce


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