Dear Jmol people, As a jmol user, I am highly impressed of all the new features that jmol has gotten in the last year, it's becoming an amazingly versatile program.
BUT, I just noticed that I really lost track of all the features that have been implemented and are still being implemented. There are a lot of things that I know can be done with the program, but I just don't know anymore where it is written. I know there are the pages of Bob at stolaf, ( http://www.stolaf.edu/academics/chemapps/jmol/docs/ ) and then the interactive scripting examples at http://www.stolaf.edu/academics/chemapps/jmol/docs/examples-11/new0.htm or "new.htm" or new1 or new2. And then, for isosurfaces there is http://www.stolaf.edu/academics/chemapps/jmol/docs/examples-11/isosurface.htm and for surfaces there is http://jmol.sourceforge.net/docs/surface/ And then there is the wiki.... Jmol doesn't have the in-script help like rasmol has I guess, but at the moment having that would probably just mean another heap of work to keep it updated. I really think that it would be a good thing for jmol to have a single clear structure in the documentation. For a versatile program like this, with the amount of features it currently has, it is very important to give the users clear access to these features. The list of functions in http://www.stolaf.edu/academics/chemapps/jmol/docs/ is already very good as a reference, but the lists with interactive examples have the disadvantage that they mostly show the functions in the new version, of which there are a lot :) I guess it would be useful to have therefore interactive pages with examples corresponding each of the entries in the reference. Then, next to the reference, it will be useful to have a page of interactive examples from the point of view of the user, that wants to know how-to do this and this? Of course there the reference is not enough, no new user can know which function-name to look at. The surface page is an example of such a solution. Sorry for the long blurb, but I think it would be an important point to make sure that all the effort done by the developers doesn't get lost. Are there already plans to make a more structured documentation and tutorial? Is there a way to integrate this into the wiki-idea, so it can be done with the help of user contributions? -- greetings, Pim ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
