From: Brian M. <bm...@iu...> - 2009-11-13 15:53:40
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Dear Jmol community The IUCr has just released a new beta version of its enhanced figures toolkit to allow authors in IUCr journals to create and publish figures with Jmol. [See the initial post early last year http://www.mail-archive.com/jmo...@li.../msg09834.html and the Journal of Applied Crystallography paper I wrote with Bob Hanson http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0021889808015616 ] The new version represents the work of a summer-time undergraduate student, Andrew French, who has done a great job in making the interface much more user-friendly, and incorporating lots of the cool new features introduced to Jmol in the last year. There are still several niggly little bugs, but the general behaviour of the interface is now as we want it, and we're hoping for early feedback on the new interface from authors. Take-up of the original toolkit has been modest (there are usually a couple of interactive figures in each monthly issue of Acta Cryst. E), but we're expecting this version will have much more appeal to authors who are not familiar with Jmol. You're welcome to test-drive the application at http://submission.iucr.org/jtkt/edit/z/s/xM4m1861Ry3t7YdE/zz0000/640/520 (which is a read-only example - you can't save any changes you make); or you may try your own examples at http://submission.iucr.org/jtkt This will feature in an ICSTI Workshop in Paris next February on "Interactive Publications and the Record of Science" (see http://www.icsti.org), and I've also submitted an abstract for the ACS Spring Symposium on the Future of Scholarly Publishing. Thanks, as ever, to Bob Hanson and the other Jmol developers who make this software such an incredibly useful and powerful tool for research, education and investigation. Cheers Brian _________________________________________________________________________ Brian McMahon tel: +44 1244 342878 Research and Development Officer fax: +44 1244 314888 International Union of Crystallography e-mail: bm...@iu... 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England |