perhaps it would be useful to explicitly mention that the & character is not part of the resulting keyword value. And also make the example shorter so you...

I'd like to make a couple of points about the CONTINUE convention. First, I recommend that wording be added to disallow the usage of the convention for any...

The ADASS abstracts are online (rather early it seems to me - good work), and some of the usual suspects have a presentation on the results of the IAU...

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

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

On Mon 2007-08-06T22:54:59 +0930, Kevin Thomas hath writ: How does one know how many 2880 byte chunks preceed the image data???? That question is answered...

On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Kevin Thomas wrote: We need a "Don't Make Me Think" policy with the FITS format. More standards might benefit from users and...

Does anyone who uses WCSLIB 3.x or 4.x use the backwards-compatibility macros for the projection, linear transformation or spherical transformation routines of...

Rob Seaman wrote: .. google FITS: .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS from which we find, for instance, that "FITS is the most commonly used ...

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...

It might be useful to explicitly address some corner cases, e.g., long strings that end in &. SVALUE = 'This is a long string &' CONTINUE 'really...

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 read in a certain order if...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

In a private message, Norman Gray (Leicester Univ, UK) has corrected some of the statements in my posting. Don Wells wrote: Rob Seaman wrote: ...