Accent escape sequences
Herbert J. Bernstein yaya at bernstein-plus-sons.comSun Mar 4 02:26:50 GMT 2007
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It would be best to use a MIME boundary marker before the MIME header information. At 7:00 PM -0500 3/3/07, Joe Krahn wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >comcifs mailing list >comcifs at iucr.org >http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/comcifs
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