[fitswcs] Comments on Paper III

[Mark Calabretta]

On Mon 2003/11/24 16:19:42 CDT, William Pence wrote
in a message to: Mark Calabretta <Mark.Calabretta at atnf.CSIRO.AU>
and copied to: Jonathan McDowell <jcm at head.cfa.harvard.edu>,
     fitswcs at cv.nrao.edu

>This is just a small point, and perhaps this was not intended, but I hope
>you would not require that the column form could only be used in ASCII
>tables and not binary tables as well.   The application program that reads

I was thinking that it might make it easier if there was a clear
distinction between column- and cell-vector forms based on the type of
table but it was only a suggestion.  Failing that, there needs to be a
predefined way to disambiguate, preferably using PVi_ma to signal the
format rather than some heuristic based on the number of rows and/or
their dimensionality.

Mark Calabretta
ATNF