[LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts

[William Howard]

Another version uploaded to the scratch pad.

Still a work in progress, so feel free to rip it to bits

W

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Howard" <william at howard-family.fsworld.co.uk>
To: "LDraw Standards Committee" <lsc at ldraw.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts



> Rats!  Look like I just "volunteered" to draft it.

>

> Suggestion.  We do a "work in progress" version that just covers 

> restrictions on the file format spec for official parts, publish and adopt 

> that (which gets the immediate requirment to publish the information taken 

> out of the file format spec out of the way) and then do the full version.

>

> W

>

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Philo" <philohome at free.fr>

> To: "LDraw Standards Committee" <lsc at ldraw.org>

> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:36 AM

> Subject: Re: [LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts

>

>

>>I vote for it!

>>

>> Philo

>>

>> William Howard wrote:

>>

>>> Why not do both?  If the "Official Parts Format Specification" started 

>>> with the LDraw File Format Spec as its "base", lists restrictions on it 

>>> and then covers additional requirements for Official Parts we can have 

>>> our cake and eat it!

>>>

>>> W

>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philo" <philohome at free.fr>

>>> To: "LDraw Standards Committee" <lsc at ldraw.org>

>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:19 AM

>>> Subject: Re: [LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts

>>>

>>>

>>>> Agreed! But then we are not writing a "File Format Restrictions for 

>>>> Official Parts" but an "Official Parts Format Specifications" - which 

>>>> would be quite useful !!!

>>>>

>>>> Philo

>>>>

>>>> William Howard wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> Which also raises two of the "tribal knowledge" items that needs 

>>>>> covering in the document

>>>>>

>>>>> 1) precision (is it 3dp for parts/primitives and 4 dp for hi-res 

>>>>> primitives)

>>>>> 2) trailing 0s on numbers (1.5 or 1.500)

>>>>>

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