[yt-dev] prettying up the field list

Michael Zingale michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu
Tue Nov 25 06:06:04 PST 2014


I've been looking over the field list:

http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/reference/field_list.html#field-list

At the bottom of that page, we list the fields specific to each
frontend/code.  I'd like to make the presentation for each frontend a
table, with columns for the name, units, what its aliases to, and whether
it is a particle -- these are what we currently list, and perhaps show the
display name.  Showing it as a table for each frontend would be more
compact than the list, and I think it would be clearer for people to read.
Before I hack the script that writes that page, I wanted to see if there
are any objections.

Also, a minor point, there is a _dynamical_time() field which I assume is
the free-fall timescale assuming uniform density throughout the collapse.
I've always seen a '32' not '16' in the denominator (see, e.g. Carroll &
Ostlie, Eq. 12.26 or Kippenhahn & Weigert Eq. 27.10).

-- 
Michael Zingale
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