[iaufwg] approval of the 'FOREIGN' extension convention

[William Pence]

I have fixed the minor issues with the FOREIGN convention document 
listed below and placed new versions of the MS Word and PDF format 
documents, dated 13 December, on the web site at 
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_registry.html.  (You may need to clear 
your browser cache to see the new version).  - Bill


Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
>  - I have not retained a copy of the original document, and I can't
>    remember if keyword FG_MTYPE was in there. 

This keyword was in the original version of the document.  The current 
document only differs in style from the original version.  No 
significant technical changes have been made.

>  - very minor : probably the 1-80 alignment "ruler" in section 2 is
>    unnecessary or redundant

The alignment ruler has been removed.

Robert Hanisch wrote:
> I also note that the font sizes (e.g., of the FG_ keywords) jump up and down
> a lot.

The text should now be in 11 pt fonts throughout.

Mark Calabretta wrote:
> The first sentence of Sect. 2 would be better as
> 
>   A FITS extension of type 'FOREIGN' (henceforth a "FOREIGN file
>   extension" or just "FOREIGN extension") provides a mechanism for
>   storing an arbitrary file or tree of files in FITS, allowing it to
>   be restored to disk at a later time.

Assuming that the original authors have no objections, I've made this 
change.

> In section 3, the keyword name should be followed immediately by the
> keyvalue type, e.g.
> 
>    FG_GROUP (string) - Each time a ...
>      :
>    FG_LEVEL (integer) - The directory ...

Done.

> The three sentences beginning "When a file group is restored ..."
> make no sense to me.  Should "foreign" here in lower case be upper
> case?

"foreign" has been changed to uppercase, but otherwise the paragraph is 
still the same.

> Typos noted in passing:
> 
> "with following five" -> "with the following five"
> "adecade or two" -> "a decade or two"

Fixed.

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