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 Interactive jupyter notebook widget to calculate transmission zone plate grating (TZPG, also known as beam splitting off-axis zone plate) beam sizes and position at the sample and detector planes for the SCS instrument.
 
-The online documentation can be found at `ReadTheDocs <https://rtd.xfel.eu/docs/tzpgcalc/en/latest/>`_.
+The online documentation can be found at https://rtd.xfel.eu/docs/tzpgcalc/en/latest/