On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:37:06AM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: > DJ Delorie wrote: > >There are a couple of different ways to specify pads. The > >documentation shows you one of them; your file uses a newer one. > > > >The newest format is (from src/parse_y.y): > > > > The manual is also explicit about this: > > > "As Pcb has evolved, the file format has changed several times to > accommodate new features. Pcb has always been able to read all older > versions of the .pcb file. This allows the migration of older designs to > newer versions of the program. Obviously older versions of Pcb will not > be able to properly read layout files stored in newer versions of the > file format. > > In practice it is very common for footprint libraries to contain > elements which have been defined in various versions of the Pcb file > format. When faced with trying to understand an older element file or > layout file, the best approach is to examine the file src/parse_y.y > which is the definitive definition of the file format." > > At some point I may get around to finding a way to extract a .texi file > from parse_y.y. I'm not likely to try and manually keep pcb.texi in > sync with parse_y.y. On that topic.... anyone have a nice example of a > grammar in BNF form formatted in texinfo?
Is there a way I can make the online *.pdf change to reflect the new syntax along with the old one? CL< > > -Dan
