JonesMI

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Hi, and welcome! Great work on defocus aberration. There was no need to create a duplicate at defocus, though. Instead, just create a redirect by putting the text "#REDIRECT [[destination]]" in the duplicate location (replace destination with the name of the destination page). Many names can redirect to a single article in this way. Any link to a redirected name automatically takes you to the destination article instead, so the link to defocus above will now take you right to defocus aberration. Check out the help pages, shown in Chris Saribay's welcome message above for more information, and feel free to ask for help. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page.--Srleffler 05:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Glad to help. Regarding equation formatting, I take it you haven't used LaTeX before? It's a pretty common mathematics processing "language" in the scientific community. The equation formatting for Wiki is a subset of LaTeX. It's not so hard to learn. The instructions are at Help:Formula. One can also construct equations out of standard HTML text and special characters, as you have done. LaTeX is usually preferred for any non-trivial formula, for various reasons (explained on the help page). The gist of it is that with LaTeX, the structure of the equation is preserved, not just the appearance.--Srleffler 06:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Optical lens design

Good job on this article, by the way. It's coming along nicely.--Srleffler 00:56, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Illustration: Apochromatic_focus_shift_small.jpg

Hi JonesMI. I took the liberty of uploading your illustration "Apochromatic_focus_shift_small.jpg" to Wikimedia Commons, so that I can use the illustration on the Swedish page for Apochromatic. Cheers! --stromdal, 2006-sept-28, 10:52 (CET).

• I also took the liberty of sprucing up your User Page, I hope you don't mind. --stromdal, 2006-sept-29, 10:45 CET.

Zemax

Hi. You previously edited the article Zemax, which was subsequently deleted. The article has now been restored through a deletion review and I have merged the various past versions of the article and expanded it. You might want to take a look and see if you have anything to add.--Srleffler (talk) 03:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

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