[fitswcs] Start of the WCS Paper III Public Comment Period

[Patrick Wallace]

Bill,


A few comments on Paper III, almost all typographical, are appended.


Patrick Wallace
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* 2, after expression (2):  I can't parse the sentence "The zero
  transverse velocity case is shown..."  Is there a way of making it
  clearer?

* I saw both "Angstrom" and "\AAngstrom" in the text (i.e. not in
  quoted strings).  I suspect omitting the ring when spelling out
  the full name is better, unless you're prepared to go the whole
  hog and write \AAngstr\"om.

* 3.4.1, final paragraph:  in the sentence "That is not to say...in
  practice" change the comma and semicolon into --- ---.

* 3.4.4, first paragraph: in the sentence "These are fundamental...
  purpose", add a comma after "Paper~1".

* Bottom of that page:  change the comma in "algorithm codes," to a
  semicolon.

* 5.1, final paragraph:  in "refraction effects which are naturally" I
  suspect that "that" is more correct than "which".


* 7, in "...are the sidereal time and the observatory location", get a
  cheap post-IAU-2000 veneer by adding "(or Earth rotation angle)" after
  "sidereal time".

* 10.2, in "rotation of the earth", capitalize "Earth" (matching "Sun"
  later in the same sentence).

* Reference to IERS TN 32:  missing umlauts.  The reference should read
  "Verlag des Bundesamts f\"ur Kartographie und Geod\"asie, Frankfurt am
  Main".