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--snip-- (...) There's discussions. I really think it's the optimal solution overall. Let's anyone with expertise create, improve or fix articles where they can and for an ldraw audience I think that wiki markup should be easy enough. Tim (18 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Maybe it could just explain the theory without including instructions how to do it, then show the "easy way". James (18 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I hate to bring this up, but I've noticed some of the Mac related questions I get may be because the tutorials are all MLCad specific. Is it possible to include information on that page how to do it on Mac with Bricksmith? There is something (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I wouldn't call loading LPub to make an MPD the easy way. The easy way is to use the menus in MLCad. The article is most certainly out of date. (...) But we don't learn how an MS Word document is formatted before using a word processor. (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It does show the "easy" way as well: (URL) reason the EASY way is not shown first is becuase users should learn the THEORY behind what they are doing rather than just learning how to do it. Eg. You can use a calculator to do multiplication. (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Any reason why we'd want that instead of just wiki.ldraw.org, or ldraw.org/wiki/? Dan (18 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Strike that. We can add you as an article editor. You simple need to email us with your LDraw User ID. -Orion (18 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'd see it as a side-wiki probably. Move as much content as people are willing to open source across but keep the best articles fixed on ldraw.org. Would mean anyone could edit tutorials etc. but we'd have fixed versions. Tim (not speaking as (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hmm - an ldraw wiki? That's a good idea, and it's not hard. For example you could sign up for a wiki on pbwiki.com (ldraw.pbwiki.com is available) and we can transfer the existing content there and move the links on the existing site to point (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hi William, At the moment I think it's only the webmasters who can edit articles (might be nice to have an ldraw wiki one day but...) so if you email us (webmaster@ldraw.org) with a list of things you've noticed and/or suggested improvements (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I was looking through some of the articles on ldraw.org and found some to be out of date or to have errors. I'd be happy to help clean this up but I don't know what the process is to get access or to submit changes...? For example (URL) has a long (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Congratulations to the winners of the April 2007 Model/Part Of The Month (MOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, USS-Wolfram by Emory Dunn> (URL) Part, Minifig Torso with Telephone Pattern by Michael Heidemann (mikeheide)> (URL) Desired Part, Minifig (...) (18 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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(...) Thanks and done. Tim (18 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Oooo, no they are not. The one on LDraw.org contains a bottom subsection of newer colors—such as flesh and Maersk blue but not Trans Orange—which are not part of the standard distribution. I had no idea there were official color codes for (...) (18 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Personally, I'd have used the one from the official library download. IIRC, the one you linked to is the same. (18 years ago, 26-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Before I found the direct link to (URL) here on a lugnet discusion, I searched for ldconfig.ldr at ldraw.org for quite a long time without succeess. I tried the Search function, entering ldconfig.ldr. It came up with: "Downloads: no downloads (...) (18 years ago, 26-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) And it was really worth the effort! A funny story/scenery with a different use of the model. Hopefully the two guys succeeded without getting two wet. And thanks for the links. I will dive through it and will see, what I can learn next... (...) (18 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) At last, it's finished! It can be found here: (URL) (18 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Which may or may not be an issue. It's irrelevant if you're just editing existing lines, but if you add new ones, vi will add them in the file-native format (CRLF for a DOS file), while emacs will add them in the machine-native format. Dan (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) You have my pity ;) (...) I think it leaves them alone. Certainly I've never had any troubles with it converting one way or the other before. If you edit a Windows text file on a UNIX emacs it will show the extra ^R (or whichever is unused on (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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