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On Feb 16, 2016, at 12:19 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>=20
>>>> As far as I know, the only character gschem can't put into a refdes
>>>> or netname is NULL.
>>>=20
>>> I bet newlines are tricky, but that's a nitpick.
>>=20
>> I put newlines in attributes all the time. Very useful for SPICE.
>=20
> I was referring specifically to refdes, which you were talking about.
> I know other attributes in general can be multi-line, but if you had a
> multi-line refdes I suspect the odds are good that something in the
> various flows to barf on it.

Yes. Putting anything unusual in a refdes is probably asking for trouble =
downstream. Still, gschem will do what the user tells it to do. This is =
a good thing, since none of us knows every application.

>=20
> Just because attributes in general are flexible doesn't mean that
> interpretation of attributes in context is.
>=20

Yes.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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