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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, John Doty wrote:
> From the ngspice manual:
> "you may place a .TITLE <any title> line anywhere in your input deck. The
> first line of your input deck will be overridden by the contents of this
> line following the .TITLE statement.”
> 
> This means that no special feature is required of a SPICE netlister here:
> all the gEDA SPICE netlisters have ways to insert arbitrary SPICE directives
> into the deck. I’m not a fan of adding special features that duplicate
> general capabilities.

So if I understand this correctly, adding '.TITLE' before the actual title 
on the first line of the "input deck" doesn't change anything, and having 
a special mechanism for specifying the title is redundant because you 
could just add spice-directive-1.sym with "value=.TITLE insert title here".

Roland

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