-pyafm: tools for controlling atomic force microscopes.
+Pyafm
+=====
-Provides control of AFM postition using both short-range (piezo) and
+Pyafm is a set of tools for controlling atomic force microscopes. It
+provides control of AFM postition using both short-range (piezo) and
long range (stepper) vertical positioning. There are separate modules
for controlling the piezo (`pypiezo`) and stepper (`stepper`), this
-module only contains methods that require the capabilities of both.
+module mostly contains methods that require the capabilities of both.
Packages
========
# emerge -av sci-physics/pyafm
Although it is not strictly required (thanks to `duck typing`_) you'll
-probably also want my `sci-libs/stepper`_ package or an equivalent
+probably also want my `stepper`_ package or an equivalent
stepper implementation.
.. _layman: http://layman.sourceforge.net/