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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Can an attribute be attached to text for later
 inclusion in gnetlist backend?
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On 24 August 2016 at 03:24, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
> I believe what Svenn wants is a “toplevel” attribute, not attached to a symbol, like the spice-epilog attribute here:
>
> Of course, your gnetlist back end needs the code to make sense of such a thing.

Indeed. I want a toplevel attribute for the VHDL prolog.
The original vhdl backend has this hard-coded, and I would like to
augment my backend with the opportunity to set this on a per-schematic
base to override the default, if user wants to define his own.

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Svenn