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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. 514
Section 5.3.5.3.2. Invocation of the program
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The program reads a CIF on the standard input channel and outputs ![[\hbox{\TeX}]](/teximages/abpre6/abpre6fi2.svg)
code on standard output. There is no provision to specify file names. It is therefore invoked within a Unix-style operating system by a command such as
ciftex 〈 infile 〉 outfile
where infile and outfile are the input and output files respectively; or it may be called as part of a pipeline of procedures:
program 1 〈 infile | ciftex | program 2 …
A number of command-line options may be supplied to modify the operation of the program. Other than the specification of the map and format files, they are largely relevant to differing house styles for IUCr journals.
The options -map mapfile and -format formatfile specify the names of the ancillary map and format files. If not specified, they are sought in default locations on the user's file system (different values may be defined when the program is compiled) or as specified in the environment variables $CIFTEX_MAP and $CIFTEX_FORMAT, respectively.
The options -H and -N specify, respectively, whether or not hydrogen atoms in coordinate tables should be printed. The hydrogen-atom lines in the table are in fact always emitted on standard output, but in the case of the -N option are prefixed by a % ( comment) character and so ignored by .
Options -c and -F specify the printing of centred decimal points or commas for decimal points, respectively. Finally, the option -d modifies certain assumptions that ciftex makes when typesetting CIF dictionaries. The details are of interest only to a specialist.
