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Subject: Re: [geda-user] automatically create a .sch file containing a single component?
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Comments: In-reply-to Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Roland Lutz:
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> You may also want to have a look at the gEDA XML file format:
> 
>    https://hedmen.org/xorn/doc/api/html/geda-xml-format.html

I do dislike thoose chatty formats but I can't say that
 B 0 0 17000 11000 15 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
is much better...
(except that it is very simple to write programs for it)

Regarding:
 <box x="0" y="0" width="170" height="110" color="lock" width="0"/>

why not <box pos="0,0" size="170,110" ...>, since x and y is the same
thing, just viewed from an different angle (same with witdh and heigth)
(and why do you have two "witdh"s in the example ?).

Or why not
 B 0,0 17000,11000 15 0 0  0,-1,-1,0  -1,-1,-1,-1,-1
which would keep related things together and be visually easier to read.
Or have named arguments for the lesser used args., like
 B 0,0 17000,11000 15 0 0  dash=0,-1,-1,0  fill=-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
which could then be simplified to
 B 0,0 17000,11000 15 0 0
which is a more reasonable size for an argument list.

And please choose a format that doesn't need all thoose citations marks
and syntactic sugar, which is fine for a parser program but not nice on
the fingers.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar