[fitsbits] WCS keywords in tables

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On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Steve Allen wrote:

> How is this not just another application of the Greenbank convention 
> as applied to WCS keywords at least as early as 1995?

By the way, the Greenbank convention itself has never been formalized in 
a document nor registered in the convention registry. Is it time to do 
it ?

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Arnold Rots wrote:

> - How do we know which columns these keywords apply to?
>  All that contain a 2D vector?

Or should we push for an "extended Greenbank convention", something 
which explicitly provides ... a kewyord with ... the list of keywords 
"collapsed" from a table column ?

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