Molecular Structures and Dimensions

Kate Crennell

1978

Molecular Structures and Dimensions Books plus others produced on the FR80

Molecular Structures and Dimensions is a series of standard reference volumes published by the
International Union of Crystallography in conjunction with the Crystallographic Data Centre in
Cambridge. These were published at regular intervals up to Volume 16 at least. Kate Crennell worked
with the authors in the production of Volume 8 (August 77), Index to the Volumes (December 1977) and
Volume 9 (July 1978). All three volumes used the FR80 microfilm recorder to produce the page proofs.
The size of the activity was:
Volume 8 Index Volume Volume 9
Date of Publication August 1977 December 1977 July 1978
Number of references/cross-references 4000 16000 6000
Number of different types of index 5 6 6
Number of dpages 817 663 470
Page size (mm) 230 × 155 300 × 225 260 × 210
Output medium 35mm film hard copy paper hard copy paper
CPU time (secs) on IBM 360/195 154 296 190
Plotting time on FR80 (minutes) 126 245 124
Minimum Plotting time per page 1 16 9
Maximum Plotting time per page 8 64 19
The Volume 9 compilation was derived from the database of the Crystallographic Data Centre in
Cambridge. The production of the volume wa done by Kate Crennell who amended the page layout,
tabulation and justification routines developed for Volume 8 and wrote new routines as required. Mike
Chiu did the necessary font development. Some example pages are shown below.
 Compound Name Index

Compound Name Index

Formula Index

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