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Tables for Crystallography Volume G Definition and exchange of crystallographic data Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 5.3, p. 512
Section 5.3.5.2.1.5. Other features
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Some additional features are of use in special circumstances.
The user may preserve the layout of the contents of looped lists exactly as in the input file, or may ask the program to adjust the layout to a more visually pleasing tabular form.
The user may enable recognition of data-name aliases in the dictionaries used for validation. When the relevant command-line argument is set to true, user-supplied data names will be transformed to the canonical forms in the validating dictionary. This would permit, for example, a small-molecule CIF using the core dictionary definitions to be converted to mmCIF format.
The user may prefix each line of output with an identical character string. A typical reason for so doing would be to include a fragment of CIF listing within the body of an email message or some other document. Such an output would not conform to the syntax rules for CIF.