--- ray/doc/man/man1/gendaymtx.1	2013/04/30 17:05:27	1.4
+++ ray/doc/man/man1/gendaymtx.1	2020/01/07 01:42:30	1.11
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" RCSid $Id: gendaymtx.1,v 1.4 2013/04/30 17:05:27 greg Exp $
+.\" RCSid $Id: gendaymtx.1,v 1.11 2020/01/07 01:42:30 greg Exp $
 .TH GENDAYMTX 1 01/19/13 RADIANCE
 .SH NAME
 gendaymtx - generate an annual Perez sky matrix from a weather tape
@@ -7,8 +7,14 @@ gendaymtx - generate an annual Perez sky matrix from a
 [
 .B "\-v"
 ][
-.B "\-d|\-s"
+.B "\-h"
 ][
+.B "\-A"
+][
+.B "\-d|\-s|\-n"
+][
+.B "\-D sunfile"
+][
 .B "\-r deg"
 ][
 .B "\-m N"
@@ -40,7 +46,7 @@ parameter setting.
 .PP
 Increasing the
 .I \-m
-parameter, typically by factors of two, yields a higher resolution
+parameter yields a higher resolution
 sky using the Reinhart patch subdivision.
 For example, setting
 .I "\-m 4"
@@ -51,9 +57,17 @@ Thus, an hourly weather tape for an entire year would
 yield 8760x3 (26280) values per output line (row).
 .PP
 The
+.I \-A
+option tells
+.I gendaymtx
+to generate a single column corresponding to an average sky
+computed over all the input time steps, rather than one
+column per time step.
+.PP
+The
 .I \-c
 option may be used to specify a color for the sky.
-The gray value should equal 1 for proper energy balance
+The gray value should equal 1 for proper energy balance.
 The default sky color is
 .I "\-c 0.960 1.004 1.118".
 Similarly, the
@@ -65,11 +79,30 @@ corresponding to a 20% gray.
 .PP
 The
 .I \-d
-option may be used to produce a sun-only matrix, with no sky contributions.
+option may be used to produce a sun-only matrix, with no sky contributions,
+and the ground patch also set to zero.
 Alternatively, the
 .I \-s
-option may be used to exclude any direct solar component from the output.
+option may be used to exclude any direct solar component from the output,
+with the rest of the sky and ground patch unaffected.
+If there is a sun in the description,
+.I gendaymtx
+will include its contribution in the four nearest sky patches,
+distributing energy according to centroid proximity.
 .PP
+The
+.I \-n
+option may be used if no matrix output is desired.
+This may be used to merely check the input, or in combination with the
+.I \-D
+option, below.
+.PP
+The
+.I \-D
+option may be used to specify an output file to contain a list of
+solar positions and intensities corresponding to time steps in the
+weather tape where the sun is visible above the horizion.
+.PP
 By default,
 .I gendaymtx
 assumes the positive Y-axis points north such that the first sky patch
@@ -101,6 +134,9 @@ The
 .I \-O1
 option specifies that output should be total solar radiance rather
 than visible radiance.
+The
+.I \-h
+option prevents the output of the usual header information.
 Finally, the
 .I \-v
 option will enable verbose reporting, which is mostly useful for
@@ -122,5 +158,5 @@ Ian Ashdown wrote most of the code,
 based on Jean-Jacques Delaunay's original gendaylit(1) implementation.
 Greg Ward wrote the final parameter parsing and weather tape conversion.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-dctimestep(1), genBSDF(1), gendaylit(1), gensky(1), genskyvec(1), rcontrib(1),
-xform(1)
+dctimestep(1), genBSDF(1), gendaylit(1), gensky(1), genskyvec(1),
+rcollate(1), rcontrib(1), xform(1)