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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">The version 2.11 of the simulation package VITESS has been released. It can be downloaded from the internet site http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/vitess.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">The main new features are:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">- its use under Mac OS X is supported now</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">- the default graphics library is GNUPLOT now, a general plot template handling allows to connect any user specific plot software</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">- instrument definitions specified with the GUI can be exported to perl and python script files</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">- a new module 'monitor2D' allows to plot arbitrary combinations of parameters against each other in a 2D plot</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">- a new module 'sample_nxs' simulates coherent and incoherent scattering, absorption and transmission based on neutron cross sections and the unit cell
definition</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">- a new module 'eval_sans' allows the calculation of S(Q)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">Help files exist now for all existing modules. Bug fixes have been done for guide, eval_elast2 and in general tool routines. For more details see the
release note delivered with the package.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">With best regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New""> The VITESS team</span></p>
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