gEDA-dev: Non-text attributes

[Peter TB Brett]

On Wednesday 10 October 2007 09:30:30 Paul Tan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I hope I am wrong, I do sense some hesitancy here about
> continuing the support of "="s within "attribute value".
> I suppose it might have to do with the gEDA File format
> in which the TEXT object type uses NUM_LINES instead
> of delimited by some bracket or quote. I can see some
> pain for the parser there.  May be some kind of quoting
> mechanism can eliminate the pain in parsing.
>
> Current gEDA File format for TEXT object:
> T x y color size vis show_name_value angle alignmet NUM_LINES line1 ...
>
> I do hope gEDA will continue the support of "="s
> within "attribute value".  I think its a very important
> feature of an EDA system.

Well, that's the point of having a dedicated attribute element -- to remove 
any ambiguity caused by having '=' characters in attribute values.

Cheers,

                 Peter

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