<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Mike,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think this is a great idea—I’ve long thought that something like this should happen, but it’s never been a big enough priority for me to look into it. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 25, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Michael Zingale <<a href="mailto:michael.zingale@stonybrook.edu" class="">michael.zingale@stonybrook.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I've been looking over the field list:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/reference/field_list.html#field-list" class="">http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/reference/field_list.html#field-list</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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).<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div class="">Michael Zingale</div><div class="">Associate Professor</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dept. of Physics & Astronomy • Stony Brook University • Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800</div><div class=""><i class="">phone</i>: 631-632-8225</div><div class=""><i class="">e-mail</i>: <a href="mailto:Michael.Zingale@stonybrook.edu" target="_blank" class="">Michael.Zingale@stonybrook.edu</a></div><div class=""><i class="">web</i>: <a href="http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale" target="_blank" class="">http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale</a></div></div>
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