Re: ASCII Data Conversion

Lachlan Cranswick ( lachlan@melbpc.org.au )
Fri, 27 Jun 1997 03:13:21 +1000

At 09:16 26/06/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I believe the question has to do with the arrangement of the data in rows
>instead of columns. I know of no graphics package that can convert these
>into vertical (x-y) columns, nor does excel do it (or anything else)
>conveniently. The only way I know to do this is to use a word processing
>program. By finding and replacing all the tabs in the data with carriage
>returns, the data become a single column, which can then be copied into a
>graphics program or excel. Obviously, a conversion routine or simply a
>single column output option in GSAS would ease the pain.
>
>Tom Richardson
>Chemical Sciences Division
>Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>Berkeley, CA 94720
>

A while back I remember an in-house written DOS program to convert
an LHPM for UNIX "plt" file into a suitable column format that could
then be directly imported into graphing software.
In SigmaPlot 5 for DOS, you could create a
template file that imported the column data in display ready format -
observed, calculated, background, difference, hkls, and
names of phases as a neat legend.

With programs like DMPLOT and DRXWin, et al now around, there is not
so much urgency for this type of thing. But it can be nice when you
want to use the power of a commercial scientific graphing program for
publication purposes, making custom annotations, multiple patterns, etc.

Cheers,

Lachlan.

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