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On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Levente (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>Yes, but you don't know if there is a user written backend.
>
>For example, I add user defined attributes to my symbols in gschem, and I
>have scripts that uses it.
>
>Gschem doesn't know what to do with my attributes, but my scripts does.

Except for some attributes hardwired in the code occassionally - like 
"netname" in gschem.

I think the full truth is that there are some "core attributes" the editor 
understands and a lot more user defined attributes for whatever tools the 
user may have.