[yt-dev] prettying up the field list

Chris Malone chris.m.malone at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 08:05:43 PST 2014


+1 on prettying the field list

On Tue Nov 25 2014 at 7:06:24 AM Michael Zingale <
michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:

> 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).
>
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