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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] automatically create a .sch file containing a single
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Regarding:
> <box x="0" y="0" width="170" height="110" color="lock" width="0"/>
>
> why not <box pos="0,0" size="170,110" ...>

The former is easier to work with for XML tools (retrieving an attribute 
is typically simpler than string manipulation to split the combined 
coordinates).

> (and why do you have two "witdh"s in the example ?)

That's an oversight; the second one should be "linewidth".

> 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.

These seem like a good compromise between human and tool parsability. 
However, I'd prefer not to change the file format as long as I can get 
away with it.

Roland