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Hi,
I am trying to write some code which takes the unit cell of a crystal (both the cell vectors and the coordinates of the atoms) and creates a "cell" for a surface of the crystal (for a given set of Miller indices). I am having a little bit of a problem getting the coordinates of the atoms in the "surface cell" right.
I thought that this should be a standard problem, but I can't find anything about a suitable algorithm for doing this neither on the Web nor in standard crystallography text books. If anybody has any pointers either to code or text books on this subject I would appreciate it.

Best Regards,
Jrg-Rdiger Hill