Powder dictionary (pdCIF) version 1.0.1
Revision history
1991-08-28 Initial definitions B.H. Toby
1991-09-15 More definitions added B.H. Toby
1991-09-21 Still More definitions B.H. Toby
1991-09-24 Some updates from down under |:-) S.R. Hall
1991-10-07 Unable to leave well enough alone... B.H. Toby
1991-10-10 Some additional fine tuning (-:| S.R. Hall
1991-10-14 Minor touchups B.H. Toby
1991-12-08 Back to Work... B.H. Toby
1992-01-07 Add _pd_refln_ to allow for mixtures B.H. Toby
1992-02-07 Some redefinitions S.R. Hall
1992-02-25 Defining standards is a fiddly business S.R. Hall
1992-03-18 And still more... B.H. Toby
1992-05-22 Minor cleanup B.H. Toby
1992-05-23 Quasar says that all is OK now... S.R. Hall
1992-05-30 Changes from comments @ APD-II B.H. Toby
1992-08-18 Add calculated pattern definitions B.H. Toby
1992-08-28 Change 'powder' to 'pw' B.H. Toby
1992-08-31 Major overhaul of some definitions B.H. Toby
1992-09-01 Small adjustments S.R. Hall
1992-10-01 Change 'pw' to 'pd' B.H. Toby
1993-04-16 Change usage for multiple detectors B.H. Toby
1993-04-19 Change *_raw_ to *_meas_; *_sample_ to *_samp_
Install new DDL commands; new *_phase_ group S.R. Hall
1993-05-22 Fix _pd_calib_ defs; Minor editing B.H. Toby
1993-05-31 Still more minor editing B.H. Toby
1993-06-02 Application of new DDL commands S.R. Hall
1993-08-13 Last stop before Beijing, more descriptive entries &
more descriptive text added; support for film data. B.H. Toby
1993-10-27 My two cents worth I.D. Brown
1994-01-23 Change two to 2.5; sample to specimen. B.H. Toby
1994-03-13 Change date/time usage
Be more careful about pd_proc usage: separate data
& processing conditions B.H. Toby
1994-04-11 Start work on categories: move all diffractogram
items (that might ever be in a single loop) into
pd_data. B.H. Toby
1994-05-11 Start revisions based on I.D. Brown's comments B.H. Toby
1994-06-25 Complete revisions prior to ACA B.H. Toby
1994-10-27 Working draft B.H. Toby
1995-10-23 Implemented _units and _units_detail B. McMahon
1995-10-24 Transferred _pd_instr_radiation_probe to the core
as _diffrn_radiation_probe B. McMahon
1997-01-30 Final cleanup: removed _nm units; add units to
definitions; add _pd_block_diffractogram_id;
change _pd_meas_distance_value to _pd_meas_position;
remove _pd_proc_wavelength_nm, _pd_proc_d_spacing_nm;
_pd_proc_recip_len_Q_nm, and _pd_peak_d_spacing_nm
B.H. Toby
1997-01-31 Changed dictionary_definition to category_overview;
removed data_include_dependent_dictionaries and global_
blocks; some typos fixed B. McMahon
1997-02-12 Some typos fixed B. McMahon
1997-02-18 References to e.s.d. changed to s.u. etc.
Notation for Bragg and expected R factors changed to
R~B~ and R~exp~
B. McMahon
1997-03-10 Category of _pd_refln_ things changed to 'refln'; category of`
_pd_proc_number_of_points changed to 'pd_proc_info'; some
rewording of descriptions involving s.u.s according to BT;
changed 'samp' to 'spec' in many datanames relating distances
to specimen; changed style of these and similar to *_src/spec
etc; _pd_calc_method no longer has '_list yes'; _list_uniqueness
deleted from _pd_refln_peak_id; use of '.' instead of '?'
recommended in a couple of places; addition of example to
_pd_calib_conversion_eqn; '_pd_proc_intensity_calc_bkg' and
'_fix_bkg' changed to '_pd_proc_intensity_bkg_calc' and '_fix'
B. McMahon
1997-03-12 Category of _pd_calib_ things changed to 'pd_calib';
_pd_calib_conversion_eqn and *_special_details renamed as
_pd_calibration_* and assigned to category 'pd_calibration'
Alphabetised entries within category.
B. McMahon
1997-03-17 Copyediting changes to punctuation and spelling. B. McMahon
1997-10-29 Changed _pd_calib_std_external_id to
_pd_calib_std_external_block_id. Moved _pd_proc_2theta_range_ to
category pd_proc_info (because not looped with other pd_data
items).
B. McMahon
1997-10-29 Release version 1.0 B. McMahon
2005-01-07 NJA: minor corrections to hyphenation, spelling and punctuation
pd_data_[pd]: Example 3, second loop _pd_calc_2theta_scan
changed to _pd_proc_2theta_corrected
_pd_instr_cons_illum_len: definition rephrased
_pd_phase_[pd]: first sentence of definition rephrased
_pd_proc_ls_background_function: second paragraph of
definition rephrased
