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Re: re-name "patterned" parts?...
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Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:19:43 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:

In lugnet.cad.dev, Jeff Boen writes:
in addition.. something that I've been curious about.. why are the names
(descriptions) in this format?:

[type] <space> # <space> x <space> <space> #

why the second space after the times sign? I've removed it from some of my
updated parts, which caused them to be out of order, so I put it back..
but why is it there at all.. looks sloppy in parts reports, etc.

Because of parts like "baseplate 16 x 16" which need two character spaces?
Without the padding you'd get ragged listings in monospace font reports.

Just a guess, I am just a gadfly here.

I'm guessing it's so they'll sort in human readable format... ie:

brick 1 x 1
brick 1 x 2
brick 2 x  10
brick 2 x  12

would be instead (in computer numeralical order (as i like to call it
when i complain to dan))

brick 1 x 1
brick 1 x 10
brick 1 x 12
brick 1 x 2

That's my guess. :)



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  Re: re-name "patterned" parts?...
 
Yup, that'd be why. ;-) Actually, those one-digit numbers are in reality *two*-digit numbers, prefaced with a zero, but since the zero in question is invisible, you don't see it. ;-) Franklin (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: re-name "patterned" parts?...
 
(...) Because of parts like "baseplate 16 x 16" which need two character spaces? Without the padding you'd get ragged listings in monospace font reports. Just a guess, I am just a gadfly here. ++Lar (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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