Re: Typographical errors in mmCIF
Paula Fitzgerald (paula_fitzgerald@Merck.Com)
Fri, 4 Aug 95 9:04:38 EDT
Hi Peter -
> Hi - I have come across three typos in the just-released mmcif dictionary:
>
> 17062c17062
> < _item.name '_phasing_mir.entry_id
> ---
> > _item.name '_phasing_mir.entry_id'
> 18132c18132
> < _item_related.related_name '_phasing_mir_der_site.fract_x
> ---
> > _item_related.related_name '_phasing_mir_der_site.fract_x'
> 27152c27152
> < 'nanometres' 'nanometres (meters * 10^( -9))
> ---
> > 'nanometres' 'nanometres (meters * 10^( -9))'
>
> A well-constructed parser will not be able to process these records
> correctly.
>
> Regards,
> Peter.
>
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This is an interesting confluence of great minds - Brian McMahon had detected
this same set of errors with his vcif syntax checker. Brian also detected a
great number of cases in which the line-length was longer than 80 characters.
All of those problems have been fixed in the 02.aug.95 version of the mmCIF
dictionary, which was posted on the Web on Wednesday.
I clearly am going to have to get the hang of letting people know when changes
have been make - I will work on getting more organized about this. For the
record, here is the audit list of changes that were made in the newest
version.
- - - - -
0.7.20 1995-08-02
;
Changes (PMDF):
+ Enforced 80 character per line limit throughout.
+ Realphabetized _geom_angle.value and _geom_angle.value_esd.
+ Realphabetized _geom_torison.value and _geom_torison.value_esd.
+ Removed trailing blanks.
+ Fixed a couple of problems with missing terminal '.
;
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Be talking to you - Paula
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