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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. 5.7, pp. 559-560
Section 5.7.2.4. Previewing the article
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The appearance of the plain-text ordered arrangement of content in a CIF differs a great deal from its typeset representation in a journal article. It can help authors, therefore, if they can see how their article will appear in print (or as an online article) before they formally submit their article to a journal. Acta Cryst. C and E provide an online web service for this called printcif (http://journals.iucr.org/services/cif/printcif.html ).
When an author uploads a CIF to the service, the data within it are extracted (using a dynamically enhanced request list if the publication of extra items has been requested) and translated through a sequence of software filters to ![[\hbox{\TeX}]](/teximages/abpre6/abpre6fi2.svg)
(Knuth, 1986![[link]](/graphics/greenarr.gif)
). The file is processed and a final document representation (a `preprint') in PostScript or Portable Document Format (Adobe Systems Incorporated, 1999, 2004) is generated. The preprint is then downloaded to the author. The primary translation engine is the program ciftex (Section 5.3.5.3
). However, printcif has additional content filters which are not distributed with ciftex; these are modified frequently to make additional pattern-based text substitutions or to make changes to the typographic style of the preprint to match any changes in the style of Acta Cryst. C or E.
A new approach to document formatting is being explored in the development of printCIF for Word (Westrip, 2004), an embedded Visual Basic application suitable for CIF editing and formatting within Word (Section 5.3.3.4.2
). This allows users to preview their article as they work on it. However, printCIF for Word does not have access to the constantly updated translation filters used by printcif.
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