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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> writes:
> MLCad also destroys any blank lines in a file, gets rid of any 0
> lines without a comment, and destroys indentation. I realised this
> after carefully formatting my DAT file only to have my formatting
> completely wiped out by MLCad.
This sounds counter-productive to me. Judging from the official LDraw
files, it appears that many of the original files follow these
guidelines with respect to indentation:
o Comments are not indented
o All other lines are indented by one space
There also seems to be a standard that the last line in a part should
be an empty, unindented comment, i.e. a single "0".
These are the guidelines I generally stick to when I compose .DAT
files, both models and parts.
Fredrik
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