Mark, I only played a minor role in the development of this Grouping convention, but here is my take on the issues you raised: Mark Calabretta wrote: *...

On 5/21/07 10:17 AM, "LC's NoSpam Newsreading account" wrote: I had a quick glance to the the summary and full specification pdf...

I had a quick glance to the the summary and full specification pdf docs (quicker for the second). My impressions are : - the summary is too much a summary...

There are two different issues being discussed he 1) What is a convention, and what is our role in documenting them, and 2) Is the INHERIT...

Mark Calabretta wrote: On Thu 2007/04/12 14:19:11 +0200, "Lucio Chiappetti's NoSpam Newsreading accoun t" wrote in a message to:...

On Thu 2007/04/12 14:19:11 +0200, "Lucio Chiappetti's NoSpam Newsreading accoun t" wrote in a message to: 1) I doubt the...

On Fri 2007/03/23 16:06:53 EDT, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS A document describing this convention and a sample FITS...

On Tue 2007/07/17 16:17:06 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS Mark Calabretta wrote: 1) The continuation...

Hi Bill, I've revised the documentation about this convention to try to address all the comments that have been received so far. Please see the new...

A disk crash here over the weekend wiped out all the files related to the CONTINUE long string keyword convention on the FITS Support Office web site, so I've...

William Pence wrote: This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the CONTINUE keyword convention that has been submitted for...

On Thu 2007/07/12 21:39:13 -0400, Tom McGlynn wrote in a message to: Tom McGlynn and copied to: Does anyone...

Tom McGlynn wrote: Mark Calabretta wrote: Does anyone know of any other syntax that uses a similar method of continuation? IDL continuations are...

On Thu 2007/07/12 16:10:24 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: Another case where ordering may be implicit is in a sequence of...

Walter Jaffe wrote: While I think this is a useful convention, I note that this introduces an implicit ordering of FITS headers, i.e. they have to be...

Rob Seaman wrote: Perhaps the discussion from 1993 and 1994 could be included verbatim, or linked by thread off the web page? I'd hate to hold a debate...

Peter Teuben wrote: perhaps it would be useful to explicitly mention that the & character is not part of the resulting keyword value. And also make...

The CONTINUE convention, however, is different in providing a more general capability that could be used, for instance, within any other...

Perhaps the discussion from 1993 and 1994 could be included verbatim, or linked by thread off the web page? I'd hate to hold a debate on a topic that was...

Hi Mark, Mark Calabretta wrote: On Tue 2007/07/17 16:17:06 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS Mark Calabretta...