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Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:18:36 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Manfred Moolhuysen writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Chris Dee writes:
> > Manfred Moolhuysen developed this naming convention and posted (probably to
> > the old lcad list) in May 1998, but I cannot locate a copy right now. IIRC
> > the # was intended to indicate that the missing edges were not adjacent
> > (which is what the '-' means in other primitives) but in a parallel set. I'm
> > happy to use another (more html acceptable) character, but not '-'. I prefer
> > the underscore '_' character. We can replace box3#8 with a moved to file in
> > the interim.
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> You R-ed C, Chris. Althought is't more correct to say that the missing edges
> are not *all* adjacent.
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> But I'm a bit afraid that the dash and underscore charcters are to similar
> and could easely lead to confusion. Are there any other acceptable
> characters that HTLM would allow us to use?
>
> With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
Yes - I think the original intent of # was 'in two parallel groups'.
How about '='? That will work in a URL. It is almost like two '-'s.
Chris
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