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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