CIF_REFORM...UTHOR_NAMES(1)

✨ CIF_REFORM...UTHOR_NAMES(1) ✨

okay bestie so real talk: this is a page from the General Commands Manual 💖 like, the section-1 kind. the command is cif_reformat_uppercase_author_names and it is exactly as extra as its name sounds. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

cif_reformat_uppercase_author_names — parse a CIF file, reformat author names in AMCSD convention into COD format.

like. it reads your CIF, sees author names doing the AMCSD thing, and rewrites them so they're doing the COD thing instead. glow up 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cif_reformat_uppercase_author_names --options input1.cif input*.cif

so you pass options first, then one or more CIF files. yes, shell globs work, the input*.cif is literally right there being iconic ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Parse a CIF file, reformat author names in AMCSD convention into COD format.

that's it, that's the whole vibe. no cap. it goes in, it reads the author names, it converts them from AMCSD convention to COD format. main character energy for your crystallography metadata fr fr 💜

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --keep-tag-order — keep the original tag order in the CIF file. this is the default, so if you do nothing, you're already doing this. slay by accident 🎀
• --sort-tags — reorder the tags in the CIF file according to COD. not the default, but if you want it, you want it.
• --use-perl-parser — use the Perl parser to parse the CIF files. the lil perl girlie 🐚
• --use-c-parser — use the C parser to parse the CIF files. this one is the default, so it's the main character unless you say otherwise 💅
• --help, --usage — output a short usage message (yes, literally this message) and exit. your exit strategy, iconic.
• --version — output version information and exit. for when you need to know who you're dealing with 🔥

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? not the vibe. report cif_reformat_uppercase_author_names bugs using e-mail:

cod-bugs@ibt.lt

please do actually tell them, bestie, they want to know 🙈

ngl the manual page name gets truncated in the header and footer — that's just how the terminal renders it, CIF_REFORM...UTHOR_NAMES(1), and the real title is the full long one up top. iykyk.

and that's the whole page, periodt. 💖 this one came out of the General Commands Manual, under the name CIF_REFORM...UTHOR_NAMES(1) — same name in the header, same name in the footer, no version or date line to speak of. go reformat some author names, you absolute legend 🧚🌈⭐