For the plaintext format:
- The format description states that the first line of the file is supposed to be of the form "!Name: Something", but 2540 out of the 3210 .cells files in all.zip lack this line entirely. Is the "!Name" line not actually required?
- Are comments permitted in the middle of a pattern drawing, e.g.:
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!Name: Glider .O. ..O !Ooo, spooky! OOO
- Is it permissible for the name header to be of the form "!Name:Something", without any whitespace after the colon?
- Must the space after "!Name:" be the space character (U+0020), or can it be a tab or Unicode whitespace?
- If "!Name:" is followed by more than one space (and/or tab or Unicode whitespace?), are the spaces after the first stripped or included in the name?
- What counts as a newline sequence in this format? The RLE page states that "DOS [i.e., CR LF], Unix [i.e., LF] and Mac [i.e., CR] newline conventions are all acceptable", but the Plaintext page is silent on this.
- When outputting the 0×0 pattern (xs0_0 in Catagolue) in Plaintext format, is there a consensus on whether the drawing should consist of a single blank line or just be empty/absent?
- Are blank lines allowed between the '#' lines and the header? The fireshiprake.rle and tubwithnine.rle files do this.
- Is leading whitespace allowed on lines? The pseudobarberpole_synth.rle file does this.
- What characters are allowed as the "type" letter after the '#' in a '#' line? Must "type" letters always be ASCII alphabetic characters? Are other ASCII letters and/or Unicode alphabetic characters allowed?
- Same questions as above about whitespace after "!Name:" but for the whitespace after "type" letters