> If any of you (Peter and Al as potential customers especially?)
> have comments I'd be grateful to hear them; you can find the web page at
>
> http://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/stil/
>
> with links to the user document (SUN/252) and javadocs.
Okay, a couple of (silly?) points about the web page in this email, I'll
actually sit down and look at it properly tommorrow!
Right at the start you need to emphasis right under where it says
"Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library" that this is Java, pure Java, and
not Fortran (no Fortan anywhere). Maybe a subtitle it like,
Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library
<EM><FONT SIZE="-1">Generic Java Table Handling for Astronomy</FONT></EM>
we do have a reputation for producing Java that you need JNI to use. Might
be a good presentation idea to hammer it home that this one is a bit
different? A small point, but presentation sometimes wins over content
(unfortunately), someething we've been guilty of forgetting in the past.
Along the same lines you probably want a bold text list right up front of
what formats it handles (or at least bold them in the intro paragraph), so
move the "Supported Formats" section up the text and bold face it!
In the "How to obtain it" you want to put the link to the standalone JAR
file first and emphasis that STIL doesn't need any of the rest of the
Starlink stuff to run (it has a minimal buy-in and thats a BIG plus point
you need to sell).
All the important stuff (supported formats, how to get it) should be near
the top so you don't have to scroll to get to them.
Cheers,
Al.
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