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Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
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Date: 
Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:53:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > 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:

Whoops.  Silly me.  It's amazing the tricks memory can play on you ;-).


> > 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.

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 ordering I suggested).  Additionally, I really don't think users will
be restricted all that much by disallowing spaces.

--Travis



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  Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
 
(...) Actually, the spec says just the opposite, that tags (keywords) are not case-sensitive: (...) That seems reasonable. Steve (23 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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