[cad-linux-dev] Re: foo_style entities
- From: Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: CAD linux development <cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:07:09 -0500
# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Bruno Postle
# on Wednesday 25 August 2004 06:35 am:
>> --- # ./drawing.yml # drawing entity
>
>This layout of this file is the most important of the lot; since it
>defines the format of the whole drawing, the layout needs to remain
>the same in all future formats (sardine, octopus, whatever).
>
>Should it be a YAML file? (future formats may discard YAML
>altogether - YAML may be discarded by the YAML developers)
>
>What should it contain? =A0At the least it needs the same level of
>detail as an SGML !DOCTYPE declaration - An identifying label and a
>URI for the spec.
>
>I would be tempted to put format specific information (such as
>default units) in another file altogether.
maybe there's a "directory" file that starts with a shebang-ish line
# rhizopod
=2E.. other stuff
then, a "drawing" file (as defined by rhizopod) has global values, etc.
=2D-Eric
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