On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com>wrote:
> > Robert Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Rob Beezer<goo...@beezer.cotse.net> > wrote: > >> As an aside, maybe the graph6 format doesn't work so well in Trac? The > >> back-ticks seem to have disappeared, leading to quite a different > >> graph. ;-) > > > > Never trust graph6 string conversion -- almost every bad character is > legal! > > > At one time, several of us proposed alternatives, which simply > substituted the bad characters like backticks with characters outside of > the allowed range. While this would slow down graph6 just a bit, it > would make it way more convenient. > > However, we might have to have B. McKay on board for this, and I believe > he has already spoken out on this issue. What did he say? I've only seen him speak on the History Channel (seriously). > > We could define a "sage6" format which changes bad characters to okay > ones, though. > +1 That would be awesome! For example, I tried to post the graph6 in from the top of this message to my Sage install running in a screen session, and it was a disaster for me (since I use ` as my screen escape code). William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
