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Working Group members:

I have had feedback from Brian McMahon on some of the issues
raised in my last email which may be the catalyst to starting
your input.  I should also emphasise that much of the material
circulated in the last email was a technical nature and is
not intended to be an exemplar for our exchanges - it was
mainly to show that others are working on these problems too.

As a group we need only discuss general approaches to presenting
crystallographic data online, and what data is most important.

Brian McMahon made the following comments:
> The article on parsing TeX into mathematics is especially interesting,
> and indicates three things:
> (a) the need for clearly structured mark-up when authoring the maths
> (not always easy because the author may be lazy, unclear in his own 
> mind, or
> deliberately wanting to overlay alternative representations - what 
> Fateman
> calls "punning");
> (b) the need for different strategies to handle different mathematical
> content - which is likely to be a challenge for us because of the 
> diversity
> of mathematical topics covered by crystallography;
> (c) the fact that experimental approaches (with 43% (or even 73%) 
> success
> rates still translate into immense costs in a production environment 
> if one
> needs to chase the non-successes.

Your feedback is welcomed.

Syd
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University of Western Australia
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