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Some of the tools ask you to specify the format of output tables
using the -ofmt
flag.
The following list gives the values usually allowed for this;
in some cases as you can see there are several variants of a given format.
You can abbreviate these names, and the first match in the list below
will be used, so for instance specifying votable
is equivalent
to specifying votable-tabledata
and fits
is equivalent to fits-plus
.
Matching is case-insensitive.
-
fits-plus
- FITS file; primary HDU contains a VOTable representation
of the metadata, first extension contains a FITS binary table
(behaves the same as fits-basic for most purposes)
-
fits-basic
- FITS file; primary HDU is data-less, first extension
contains a FITS binary table
-
votable-tabledata
- VOTable document with TABLEDATA (pure XML) encoding
-
votable-binary-inline
- VOTable document with BINARY-encoded data inline within a
STREAM
element
-
votable-binary-href
- VOTable document with BINARY-encoded data in a separate file
(only if not writing to a stream)
-
votable-fits-href
- VOTable document with FITS-encoded data in a separate file
(only if not writing to a stream)
-
votable-fits-inline
- VOTable document with FITS-encoded data inline within a
STREAM
element
-
ascii
- Simple space-separated ASCII file format
-
text
- Human-readable plain text (with headers and column boundaries marked
out)
-
csv
- Comma-Separated Value format
-
html
- Standalone HTML document containing a
TABLE
element
-
html-element
- HTML
TABLE
element
-
latex
- LaTeX
tabular
environment
-
latex-document
- LaTeX standalone document containing a
tabular
environment
-
mirage
- Mirage input format
For more details on these formats, see the descriptions in
SUN/252.
In some cases the tools may guess what output format you want
by looking at the extension of the output filename you have specified.
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STILTS - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
Starlink User Note
256
STILTS web page:
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/
Author email:
m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk