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Client Conventions

There are certain conventions that most clients follow, and that users expect. These are not part of the protocol and are subject to change. In particular those conventions that address deficiencies in the protocol will go away when the protocol is updated to correct these deficiencies.

• Text formatting: The format of texts in the database.
• Content type specification: Clients can tag the content type of a text.
• Client-side name expansion: By number, by word, by regexp.
• Recipients of comments: Where comments should be sent.
• Order of misc-info groups: Footnotes, comments, recipients.