CIF2 syntax document for COMCIFS approval
James Hester
jamesrhester at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 01:41:51 GMT 2010
To add to Herbert's comments, you can view the record of the elision
discussions at the thread starting at:
http://www.iucr.org/__data/iucr/lists/ddlm-group/msg00234.html
and an earlier discussion around:
http://www.iucr.org/__data/iucr/lists/ddlm-group/msg00106.html
The latter message includes quite a few previous emails from that
thread so may be a useful place to start.
James.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Herbert J. Bernstein
<yaya at bernstein-plus-sons.com> wrote:
> Dear Ralf,
>
> You have read the current document correctly -- the use of escapes
> within quoted strings was not agreed to, and therefore was not included
> in the change document. While I would hope that some future version
> would include such a feature, for the moment, you need to use the
> treble quotes for strings that include single quotes. I would suggest
> accept the CIF2 document as it now stands, and then work with towards
> a more complete CIF 2.1.
>
> Regards,
> Herbert
>
> =====================================================
> Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
> Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121
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>
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>
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Great job preparing the documents for the vote. The proposal looks very good. I
>> didn't yet have a chance to fully study every detail, but I have a question
>> about the new quoting rules. Is there a way to "escape" the quoting character
>> (which is usually done with a backslash, e.g. "he said \"hello\"")? If I
>> understand correctly the CIF2 proposal doesn't assign a special meaning to the
>> backslash. Is this true?
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: James Hester <jamesrhester at gmail.com>
>>> To: Discussion list of the IUCr Committee for the Maintenance of the CIF
>>> Standard (COMCIFS) <comcifs at iucr.org>
>>> Sent: Tue, November 16, 2010 3:28:32 PM
>>> Subject: CIF2 syntax document for COMCIFS approval
>>>
>>> Dear COMCIFS,
>>>
>>> After more than a year of discussion, the DDLm working group has
>>> converged on a specification for a new CIF syntax, dubbed "CIF2". The
>>> one-page document describing the changes relative to CIF1 is available
>>> on the IUCr website at
>>> http://www.iucr.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/47434/cif2_syntax_changes_jrh20101115.pdf.
>>> .
>>> A record of the extensive discussions of the DDLm working group is
>>> available at http://www.iucr.org/resources/lists/ddlm-group, with
>>> encoding-specific discussions taking place at
>>> http://www.iucr.org/resources/lists/cif2-encoding
>>>
>>> This CIF2 specification is now presented to COMCIFS for approval. I
>>> urge all COMCIFS voting members to register their vote in a timely
>>> fashion.
>>>
>>> James Hester
>>> COMCIFS Chair
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