Accent escape sequences
Joe Krahn krahn at niehs.nih.govSun Mar 4 00:00:41 GMT 2007
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Herbert J. Bernstein wrote: > Dear Brian, > > While it may look cumbersome, I would highly recommend > use of MIME headers in a manner consistent with > imgCIF, rather than an array of more magic numbers. > I just had to add dome proposed new information to > the MIME headers for imgCIF to provide hooks for use > by XDS and it proved rather easy to had to the > exisiting framework in CBFlib, while more magic > numbers would require a new and different code > structure. I assume that we can use MIME headers, where the only required header is "Content-Type:", right? The advantage of MIME headers is that one could include Character-Encoding for text that uses international character sets. > > Coding convenience aside, I would strongly > suggest support of XML, XHTML, HTML conventions, > since they are well documented and explicit > support for TeX, since it is essential to > the publication process. I do reviews for > Math Reviews ans they have nice compromises > on handling snippets of TeX for reviews. > You may wish to consult with them on good > externals. Their system works. I agree that HTML conventions are good where more complex formatting is required, but I also like the idea of an archival format that contains code sequences that can be read reasonably well in the raw form. That's why I think the current sequences for 'CIF-format' text are reasonable to keep. It probably depends whether the text is targeted to part of a publication. > I hope we can avoid RTF -- it is lots and > lots of undocumented gotchas. I have to use > it for old style RasMol windows help > files, and there is a long learning curve > for my students. Agreed -- RTF is ill-defined, as well as unreadable in plain form. > > In any case, I think this would be a > very good subject to discuss. Will people > be at ACA 2007 or BSR 2007? I plan to be at the ACA meeting. Joe
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