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Re: L3P user primitive substitution
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:01:55 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse writes:
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> > Just a thought. If the POVRAY (or whatever) sections get too big,
> > would it make sense to add 0 INCLUDE meta-command so the LDRAW only
> > programs don't waste time parsing? Then the POV specific versions
> > could be distributed separately from the main parts. For example:
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> > 0 IFDEF POVRAY
> > 0 INCLUDE pov/coolpart.pov
> > 0 ELSE
> > 0 boring LDRAW version of part
> > ...
> > 0 ENDIF
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> In general, that's an interesting thought.
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> But in this case, I don't think it's necessary - POV already has an include
> statement (IIRC).
Well yes, but I wasn't just thinking about POV. I thought that was
your point in changing the syntax. The 0 INCLUDE meta-command could
be used to install custom colors much like the ldliterc.dat file.
I'm sure there are plenty of other non-POV uses, like say postscript?
> Of course, allowing the use of such a statement raises another issue:
> is it alright to distribute non-LDraw files with the LDraw parts library?
I don't see why not, but the point is that you wouldn't have to.
by pulling the non-LDRAW content out into separate files you can
do minimal, typical, and complete versions of the parts library
installation.
Don
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| (...) [snip] (...) [snap] (...) Nod, right. INCLUDE has been mentioned before, in other contexts, and I'm generally in favor of it. But I'd rather discuss that in a separate thread - IF[N]DEF/ELSE/ENDIF wouldn't depend on INCLUDE. (although, for (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P user primitive substitution
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| (...) In general, that's an interesting thought. But in this case, I don't think it's necessary - POV already has an include statement (IIRC). Of course, allowing the use of such a statement raises another issue: is it alright to distribute (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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