[fitsbits] Start of the CONTINUE keyword Public Comment Period

[Peter Teuben]

  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 can easily show the equivalent string
in a single-keyword example:

i.e.

SVALUE  = 'This is a long string value &' 
CONTINUE  'extending&    '
CONTINUE  ' over 3 lines.'

is the same as

SVALUE  = 'This is a long string value extending over 3 lines.'

and also thus showing anything after the & does not count. 

A reminder is thus in place how the & can be made part of the 
SVALUE string. && ??


On [Wed Jul 11 16:14], 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 inclusion in
> the 'Registry of FITS Conventions' which is maintained by the IAU FITS
> Working Group.  This is the 9th in a growing series of conventions
> submitted for inclusion in the Registry.
> 
> Detailed information about this convention and a sample FITS file that
> uses it are available for public review and comment from the FITS
> registry web page at
> 
>              http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_registry.html
> 
> The CONTINUE keyword allows long character string keyword values to be
> continued on the next keyword(s) in the FITS header.  This convention
> supports string keyword values that are longer than the 68-character
> maximum that can be represented in a single FITS keyword. A trivial
> example of this convention is shown below:
> 
> SVALUE  = 'This is a long string value that is &' / Any comments
> CONTINUE  'continued over three keywords&  ' / may be appended
> CONTINUE  ' in the FITS header.'        / after the quoted value.
> 
> Under this convention, the last character of each string that is to be
> continued must be the `&' character, and the continuation string is
> contained in a sequence of 1 or more CONTINUE keywords (which do not
> have a `=' character in column 9 and hence have no formal value).
> 
> Comments may be posted here on the FITSBITS mail exploder or the
> sci.astro.fits newsgroup.  Minor typographical issues may be sent
> directly to the authors of the convention.
> 
> Bill Pence
> (on behalf of the IAU FITS Working Group)
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