Is Zentra working on the 3d TriD part of the book, he is also working on the
plplot part too,
I Will help with 3d Trid !
I sent some TriD 3d piddles to Zentra, and I think there is some core Idea's
that I used
to get a good feel for the software, I would like to help on the
section, I feel that I think Zentra might of gotten absorbed... in the search
for a complete theory of physics
which is a good thing, cause it creates drive, but I know everyone still has to
focus on a priority
so any one wants to send me what been done so far, maybe we can get the Trid
Part done by next
week-end ,, or point me to the proper Git Command line "please help" to get a
copy of the POD
I think I would be nice to have a good example for each different
function and word in the TriD3D PDL Language that can show a good amount of
detail...
basically to cycle threw rvals xvals yvals zvals and all there combinations I
found a useful
learning experience..
Thanks, Cheers..
[email protected]
Mark R Baker
________________________________
From: chm <[email protected]>
To: Matthew Kenworthy <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Perldl] PDL Book status and countdown...and hold(?)
On 1/14/2012 4:46 PM, Matthew Kenworthy wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I'll have a look at the latest pull. Karl redid chapters 0 and 1, and I'm
> waiting for TriD and one other chapter. That will essentially cover a recap
> of the old Scientific Programming book, and then I was going to go through
> and stitch up all the parts into a coherent book.
These are the only pod files I see in the
pdl-book git:
00README.pod
old/PDL.Book.Functions.pod
old/pdl_tut_pgplot/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT.pod
old/PDL::Book::Chap3.pod
old/PDL::Book::Style.pod
Overview.pod
PDL/Book/Creating.pod
PDL/Book/Functions.pod
PDL/Book/NiceSlice.pod
PDL/Book/pdftest.pod
PDL/Book/PGPLOT.pod
PDL/Book/Piddle.pod
PDL/Book/PLplot.pod
PDL/Book/PP.pod
None of these looks like chapter 1 or chapter 2
from the original book.
> What is the schedule looking like?
I think the current release candidate is good to
go for the release. I need to take another whack
at the release notes and the documentation still
could use some cleanup but the book would be a
bigger bang for the buck.
I'll aim to get a reworked TriD chapter by next
weekend and then the writeup on the PDL shell(s).
Maybe you could add the index/TOC/whatever that
ties them all together. It is difficult to review
the overall document without it. I would like to
have the book available online on our web site
in addition to the PDF publication.
Also, maybe we should standardize on a location
for the images (maybe a separate subdirectory
and naming scheme like img/subdir where subdir
is all lowercase version of the POD source file
name---to help systems that can't or won't
differentiate between case in filenames...).
Cheers,
Chris
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:46 PM, chm<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Matt-
>>
>> How are we doing with the book? Do you have a list
>> of volunteers and the chapters they are planning to
>> work on?
>>
>> I'm getting started on the two I'm covering but I
>> think we need to sort out what's what as we
>> approach the end of January. There are still a
>> couple of weeks to go but I haven't see a lot of
>> new addtions to the PDL book git.
>>
>> At the least we need a head count of what is
>> actually being worked. If necessary, we can get
>> a fallback plan to cover some sort of partial
>> release (which I had hoped to avoid). Have you
>> put up the contents of the previous book work
>> on the git. Even a re-work of those chapters
>> with some of the new work would be a *huge*
>> improvement to go with PDL-2.4.10.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>> On 1/5/2012 10:44 AM, Matthew Kenworthy wrote:
>>
>>> Fantastic! Pull down the latest book and start writing :) Any small,
>>> completed sections will help!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:44 AM, chm<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Matt-
>>>>
>>>> I volunteer to do a chapter on the 3D graphics
>>>> and a chapter/intro/tutorial on the PDL shell(s).
>>>>
>>>> --Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/17/2011 9:41 PM, Karl Glazebrook wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Matt,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds good, I volunteer to do 1 chapter if others also do.
>>>>>
>>>>> How about we collect volunteers here, and they you marshal them?
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree that sounds a lot easier than latex.
>>>>>
>>>>> How did you make the PDF?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Karl
>>>>> Sent from an iProduct
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:21 AM, Matthew Kenworthy<kenworthy@strw.**
>>>>> leidenuniv.nl<kenworthy@strw.**leidenuniv.nl<[email protected]>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Chris, Karl, and other PDL Book interested people:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Chris Marshall<devel.chm.01@gmail.***
>>>>>> *com<[email protected]>>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Matt-
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How are things going with the PDL book "project"
>>>>>>> as far as status, plans, working files, or other
>>>>>>> information? Would setting up a git folder at
>>>>>>> sf.net help with coordination and contributions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> A git folder would be a good idea :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here were my thoughts on PDL Books and Tutorials -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In order to write and edit PDL documentation, it would be good to have
>>>>>> a simple format that everyone could edit easily and see it updated in
>>>>>> a timely fashion, but that it could be exported to something nicer as
>>>>>> a printable format in a PDF, such as the LaTeX output of the original
>>>>>> PDL Book.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To this end, I decided to try rewriting the PDL Book in POD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've found out that this works surprisingly well, because:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Writing in POD means that it is completely available and searchable
>>>>>> in the PDL help system
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) There's no maintaining a separate documentation repository (it
>>>>>> lives with PDL)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3) It can be cross-linked in with the PDL core documentation
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To test this out, I converted the PDL Book Chapter 3, which is image
>>>>>> intensive chapters in the book, in order to see what the output would
>>>>>> be like in HTML and PDF.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The original POD documentation:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/****~kenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.**<http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/**%7Ekenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.**>
>>>>>> PGPLOT/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT.pod<http**://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~**
>>>>>> kenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.**PGPLOT/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT.pod<http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Ekenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT.pod>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Converted to HTML:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/****~kenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.**<http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/**%7Ekenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.**>
>>>>>> PGPLOT/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT.html<htt**p://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~**
>>>>>> kenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.**PGPLOT/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT.html<http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Ekenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT.html>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ....and exported as PDF:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/****~kenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.**<http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/**%7Ekenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.**>
>>>>>> PGPLOT/test.pdf<http://www.**strw.leidenuniv.nl/~kenworthy/**
>>>>>> pdlpod/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT/test.pdf<http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/%7Ekenworthy/pdlpod/PDL.Tut.PGPLOT/test.pdf>
>>>>>> **>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, what does this mean?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ideally, it would be good to see a PDL Book, a set of PDL Tutorials
>>>>>> and a PDL Reference (mostly made up of the PDL function documentation)
>>>>>> which factor in the hard work done on the earlier separate texts, so
>>>>>> that we can all point new users to a given help page from within PDL.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The main work is doing the control code mangling, the conversion of
>>>>>> the images to PNG and checking that the new texts scan well. I can
>>>>>> take the lead on organisation, but I don't have that much time to do
>>>>>> conversions all by myself - if two or three people are willing to work
>>>>>> on converting a chapter at a time, we could pull something together
>>>>>> for a December/January release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Okay, have a look at the PDF if nothing else, and let me know what you
>>>>>> think.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Matt
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