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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] adventures using arrows (for documentation), or cross my lines
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	message dated "Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:38:12 -0700."
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Ed:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018, at 11:23 AM, karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
> > Edward Hennesy:
> >> I’d like to suggest a fourth option:
> >> D, Add another line style “TYPE_NONE” where the line is not drawn.
> > 
> > I would not support that idea, better is to have no default width and> instead of writing 0 in the line width column, write a real width
> > like 5 or 10, and let 0 in effect be either "as thin as possible" or
> > "no line".
> 
> Older schematics and symbols in existing libraries contain 0 in the line
> width.

Yes, it's stupid.

> Maintaining backward compatibility and a new definition of width
> 0 would be more difficult to implement.

Yes.

Perhaps the only place it is useful to have width = 0 is in filled
paths, and I'm guessing that paths are not much used, so one could
break compatibility just there without too much breakage.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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