Jim,
You summed it up, it simply needs to be easier to use. With
"plot" and a couple of appropriate modifications you can get a "what you
see is what you get" plot that for many applications works
adequately. XWin-Plot is just not that "undergraduate" user friendly, they
are our main user here.
Kelley
At 08:54 AM 11/18/2002 -0800, Jim Bloxsidge wrote:
>Dear XWin-NMR users,
>
>at the recent UK Bruker Users' Meeting, it became clear that quite a lot of
>users did NOT consider XWin-Plot, in its present form at least, to be a
>full and satisfactory replacement for the older "plot" function in XWin-NMR.
>
>
>Mike Engelhardt said that he could not understand this. He felt that
>XWin-Plot provided all the functionality of "plot" and more and that the
>"plot" function was no longer needed. He asked for users to report their
>problems with XWin-Plot, so that he could sort them out.
>
>
>I have, so far, suggested to him that:
>
>There is no proper "help" routine. The "help" links simply jump you into
>the .pdf manual and that manual is out of date and (seriously) lacks detail.
>
>Layout parameters can only be modified by poking around among the twigs of
>the edit trees, without direct keyboard entry.
>
>AUTOPLOT and "xwp", while they offer some useful functionality, are
>insufficiently flexible. (Horizontal and Vertical scaling operations,
>projections etc.)
>
>
>
>As Bruker are not implementing "plot" in the Linux version of XWin-NMR and
>do not intend to include it in future versions of the Windows version, we
>need an XWin-Plot that is easier to learn and simpler to use. Please put
>your observations on BUM, with copies to Mike Engelhardt.
>
>
>
>
>Jim Bloxsidge.
>
>
>
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