Dear Simon, > B) how to plot diamonds should not be in the FAQ, it's either in > the examples or in a cookbook. The FAQ (or at least the graph section) > is not an FAQ at all, it's a cookbook.
as the person managing the FAQ, I am of course very much interested in your ideas concerning the FAQ. Does your objection mainly concern the name of the FAQ, i.e. do you feel that it does not appear natural to look there for certain problems even though the answer can be found there? Or do you have suggestions how to improve the FAQ to make it more useful to potential users? As background information: I started the FAQ simply because using PyX not on a daily basis it could serve to assist my short-time memory. Therefore, quite a few code snippets are included in the FAQ which can be used by copy-paste. Still being in the process of learning PyX myself (a process which will probably not come to an end soon, I am afraid), I thought it useful to share also some of my understanding with other users having the same problems. As you might expect, I heavily profited from the input of the experts (Andre, Jörg, Michael) who also give there feedback if answers are unsatisfying. Basically, I think that a cookbook, i.e. a sort of merger of the present FAQ and the examples, would probably be most helpful for many users. The problem is that to do a good job, one needs a fairly good understanding of the examples and on the other hand some time to work on explanations. But this is certainly something which needs to be pursued and as far as I understand, some preliminary work has been done already (Andre knows more about this). Best regards, Gert -- Gert-Ludwig Ingold email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut für Physik Phone: +49-821-598-3234 Universität Augsburg Fax : +49-821-598-3222 D-86135 Augsburg WWW : www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/theo1/ingold Germany PGP : 86FF5A93, key available from homepage
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