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Subject:	Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad
Date:	Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:52:38 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: > The only strike against double quotes is backward compatibility. Well, technically ldlite has been around since well before MLCad, and it supports the double quotes, but MLCad is more widely used. So I guess you could make that argument either way. > Isn't it too late to make this a requirement? I only asked for a recommendation, not a requirement. But I would like some sort of decision to move forward with. Also, I suspect that filenames with embedded spaces are not all that widely used at this point because of the lack of any kind of standard. If you look, you'll see everytime someone has mentioned it, the suggestion was not to use them. Anyhow, how about if the Ldraw Standards Committee folks have a round of emails and give some direction. I don't really care all that much what gets picked, just pick something so we can code it and expect other programs to read it. Here's some choices. 1. Everything to the end of line except trailing whitespace. 2. Accept filenames with surrounding quotes (and whitespace inside). 3. Both 1 and 2 are acceptable. 4. Same as 3, but prefer 1. 5. Same as 3, but prefer 2. 6. 8.3 filenames only. Curses upon you if you do anything else. How about it? Enjoy, Don

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		Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
(...) I used them until I got a VERY bizarre image of the 10016 tanker in L3p/PovRay. I promptly switched to using hyphens prefixed by the model id :) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

		Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
(...) There are other possibilities too, for example: 7. You can exceed 8.3 but don't embed spaces or other sorts of whitespace 8. Limit filenames to only the character set legal for BrickShelf folders Not meant to be exhaustive, just to get (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

		Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
(...) You could also define an escape character, to accept the character following (including spaces) as part of the string. However, as the standard allows both / and \ as directory separators, it would require some character other than \ (a common (...) (19 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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		Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
(...) I'll do the same. (...) Hi Don, Nice post. GROUP commands are defined outside the LDraw spec, but I'd guess that the naming issues are the same. I just made a minor change to: 0 PLIST BEGIN SUB <file> // depricated 0 LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB <file> (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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