[LSC] Proposed change to LDraw part file header to support theCA-Version4

[William Howard]

!LDRAW was dropped in versions 5 and 6 and the end-of-header marker in
version 6 [keep up there man! :-) ]

The CMDLINE is (mainly) used to indicate preferred colour of part; never
been a fan of it myself, not sure if MLCad uses it as the colour to use in
the visual parts lists (drawing black detail on a yellow base for minifig
heads, for example)

I agree that the HISTORY line shouldn't have a continuation, but list more
changes in a second line



-----Original Message-----
From: lsc-bounces at ldraw.org [mailto:lsc-bounces at ldraw.org] On Behalf Of Lars
C. Hassing
Sent: 31 August 2006 22:45
To: LDraw Standards Committee
Subject: Re: [LSC] Proposed change to LDraw part file header to support
theCA-Version4


If we are going to prefix all meta commands with LDRAW,
then LDRAW_ORG suddenly sticks out.

I suggest LDRAW_ORG is changed to LDRAW TYPE or LDRAW FILETYPE

    0 !LDRAW TYPE Part|Subpart|Primitive|48_Primitive|Shortcut UPDATE
YYYY-RR
    0 !LDRAW LICENSE Redistributable under CCAL version 2.0 : see
CAreadme.txt

Perhaps it would be better to prefix with LDRAW_ORG
it really signals the authority.

    0 !LDRAW_ORG TYPE Part|Subpart|Primitive|48_Primitive|Shortcut UPDATE
YYYY-RR
    0 !LDRAW_ORG LICENSE Redistributable under CCAL version 2.0 : see
CAreadme.txt



The HELP is very generic, perhaps a second keyword would make it easier
to extend in the future.
E.g. SHORT, LONG, HTML


What is "LDraw run-time command(s)" ?
Is the CMDLINE relevant in the header ?


Long lines in HISTORY should be treated like in KEYWORDS and HELP, e.g.
    0 !LDRAW_ORG HISTORY YYYY-MM-DD [UserName] Free text description of
change
    0 !LDRAW_ORG HISTORY YYYY-MM-DD [UserName] Second row simulating
formatting


I also find the END-OF-HEADER unnecessary.
The last !LDRAW_ORG is the end of header.
(another indication that 0 // is a bad continuation of HISTORY :-)
/Lars

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