Horace: visualising and manipulating S(Q,w) measured in all four dimensions

Horace is a suite of programs for the visualisation and analysis of large datasets from time-of-flight neutron inelastic scattering spectrometers. The theory behind, and application of, Horace has been published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. It is freely available online here, from where you can also download a pdf copy under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Please cite this paper if you have used Horace in your research. More details about citing Horace can be found here.

If you have problem using or installing Horace, found bug or have other questions related to Horace, please contact our team, and somebody will come back and try to help you answering your question.

Download, support & updates

• Download and setup

• Support and updates

How to use Horace

• Getting started: An introduction to the use of Horace with the Matlab command line

• Advanced use of Horace with the Matlab command line

• Horace Graphical User Interface

Horace Manual

• Horace Manual chapters

  • Changing Horace settings

  • Planning a Horace scan

  • Generating SQW files

  • Taking cuts from data; saving, loading and querying cuts on disk

  • Correcting for sample misalignment

  • Data diagnostics

  • Symmetrising etc

  • Add, subtract, etc

  • Plotting

  • Simulation

  • Fitting data

  • Fitting with resolution function convolution

• Complete list of functions

• Input file formats and creating input files

• FAQs

Example scripts

• Example scripts

Citing Horace

• How to cite Horace

• Papers citing Horace

For Developers

• Known bugs

• Become a developer

• MediaWiki information

• Developer information

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page