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Re: [ddlm-group] Wrapping up the elide discussion. .
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- From: "Bollinger, John C" <John.Bollinger@STJUDE.ORG>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:27:25 -0600
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On Sunday, January 30, 2011 6:41 AM, James Hester wrote: [...] >It appears that all but Herbert would be prepared to vote for F', and >even Herbert is prepared to consider F. No other proposal reaches a >similar level of acceptance among voting members (and I note that >non-voting members are also strongly in the F/F' camp). I would >therefore like to focus discussion on F' and F as the two choices most >likely to succeed. > >The single point in favour of F' as opposed to F is that the sequence ><backslash><backslash> has no meaning, which makes it simpler to >include backslash-rich text (eg LaTeX or RTF). This continues to be >of particular concern among our journal colleagues. Considering that the purpose of all of these proposals is to cover the unlikely event of a need to quote text that contains all three CIF2 multiline quoting delimiters, I'm inclined to discount that advantage. I would reconsider if someone could point to a relevant flavor of backslash-rich text wherein the multiline delimiters are all relatively likely to appear, and which also has no domain-specific way to elide them. >The single point that some consider to be in favour of F relative to >F' is that it is a proper subset of Python syntax. I don't view that as a particularly strong advantage, but for me, F also has the advantage of feeling more natural. I slightly prefer F. John -- John C. Bollinger, Ph.D. Department of Structural Biology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer _______________________________________________ ddlm-group mailing list ddlm-group@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/ddlm-group
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