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Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
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Date: 
Fri, 6 Feb 2004 03:35:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> > I don't think so.  What if CODE is part of the color name?  I can't
> > think of a quick example for that, but other key words are easy.
> > 
> >   AlphaTeamRed, BlueChrome...
> > 
> > I'll support color names with no space characters, and I'll consider
> > supporting color names with spaces, if the name is enclosed in quotes.
> 
> I would prefer that spaces not be allowed in the color name as well.  However,
> the spec does say that all the keywords are case sensitive (must be all caps),

Actually, the spec says just the opposite, that tags (keywords) are not
case-sensitive:
> Tags.  CODE, VALUE, EDGE, ALPHA, DITHER, LUMINANCE, CHROME, METALLIC, RUBBER and
> MATERIAL are keyword tags.  Some tags are followed by a single parameter value.
> Tags are case-insensitive.

> and I believe the original suggestion was that keywords by themselves with
> spaces surrounding couldn't be used in a color name.  (It didn't actually say
> this, but I suspect that was the intent.)

That seems reasonable.

Steve



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  Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
 
(...) Whoops. Silly me. It's amazing the tricks memory can play on you ;-). (...) While this is still probably do-able, I think my original argument about the possible creation of future tags still holds (unless you're also agreeing to the enforced (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) I would prefer that spaces not be allowed in the color name as well. However, the spec does say that all the keywords are case sensitive (must be all caps), and I believe the original suggestion was that keywords by themselves with spaces (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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