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The Hall symbols for describing unambiguously the generators of space groups have been extended to describe any setting of the 1651 types of magnetic space groups (Shubnikov groups). A computer program called MHall has been developed for parsing the Hall symbols, generating the full list of symmetry operators and identifying the transformation to the standard setting.