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> Any opinions from people who use SPICE?
=46rom 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.=E2=80=9D
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=E2=80=99m not a fan of adding special =
features that duplicate general capabilities.
> What bothers me is the usage of the "comment=3D" attribute:
I think that attributes specialized to a particular netlist format =
should use names unique to the format going forward. For spice-noqsi, =
there are spice-prolog=3D, spice-epilog=3D and spice-prototype=3D. =
Legacy attributes like file=3D are, of course, difficult to replace.
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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class=3D""><div><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""><div class=3D""><div =
class=3D""><br class=3D"">Any opinions from people who use SPICE?<br =
class=3D""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=3D""><br =
class=3D""></div>=46rom the ngspice manual:<div class=3D""><br =
class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">"<span style=3D"font-family: Times; =
font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: =
2;" class=3D"">you may place a</span><span =
style=3D"font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; =
font-family: monospace;" class=3D""> .TITLE <any =
title></span><span style=3D"font-family: Times; font-size: medium; =
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" =
class=3D""> 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.=E2=80=9D</span></div><div class=3D""><div =
class=3D""><br class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div =
class=3D"">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=E2=80=99m not a fan of =
adding special features that duplicate general capabilities.</div><div =
class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D""><blockquote type=3D"cite" =
class=3D"">What bothers me is the usage of the "comment=3D" =
attribute:</blockquote><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">I think that =
attributes specialized to a particular netlist format should use names =
unique to the format going forward. For spice-noqsi, there are =
spice-prolog=3D, spice-epilog=3D and spice-prototype=3D. Legacy =
attributes like file=3D are, of course, difficult to replace.</div><div =
class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">
<span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; =
border-spacing: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; =
font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; =
line-height: normal;"><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word;" =
class=3D""><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: =
separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: =
Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: =
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; =
font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: =
normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; =
orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p =
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style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: =
normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" =
class=3D"">John Doty<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> =
<span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-tab"> <span =
class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Noqsi =
Aerospace, Ltd.</font></p><p style=3D"margin: 0px;" class=3D""><a =
href=3D"mailto:jpd AT noqsi DOT com" class=3D"">jpd AT noqsi DOT com</a></p><br =
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