[yt-users] yt documentation: field list

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Mike,

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Michael Kuhlen <mqk at astro.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> As a quick sidenote, is it useful to have them split up into different
>> pages based on the universality / code-specificity?
>
> I've actually found that to be a little annoying, since I had to look in
> two different places (Universal and Enzo), but it may have its utility
> for people who are using a variety of codes. I could imagine putting the
> applicability in parentheses next to the name, like so:
>
> AbsDivV (Universal)
> Temperature (Enzo, Orion, FLASH)

That's a better idea.  I may not be able to get that into this build,
but I'll work on it.

>
> But the temperature field demonstrates one problem with that: it has a
> different "Field Source" in each of the three codes...

I do [now] think that it's still worthwhile to have a single page, as
you pointed out.  I will see if I can figure out a solution for this
particular problem.

-Matt

>
> Mike
>
> On 01/27/2011 02:07 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Yes, absolutely.  I'm planning on rebuilding and reuploading the docs
>> tonight.  I'll ensure there's a list of all the fields.
>>
>> As a quick sidenote, is it useful to have them split up into different
>> pages based on the universality / code-specificity?  Or should it all
>> be a single humongous page?
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Michael Kuhlen <mqk at astro.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> In the new yt2.0 online documentation, the field_list page
>>> (http://yt.enzotools.org/doc/reference/field_list.html) no longer
>>> contains a list of just the field names. In the old 1.7 documentation
>>> there was a column on the left hand side that contained such a list with
>>> an in-page link to the more detailed descriptions. I found that to be
>>> very useful for quickly looking up what kind of fields are available in
>>> yt. Any chance we could bring such a list back?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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