Re: gEDA-user: pcb footprint syntax

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

kmk wrote:
> Dan McMahill wrote:
>
>
> > > Clearly, the docs I am looking at do not reflect the file format used by
> > > my installed version of pcb. Is there any other place to look for the
> > > syntax?
> >
> > The manual has been updated after your snapshot to address this.
>
>
> The snapshot I use is http://pcb.sourceforge.net/pcb-cvs.html/index.html
> This is supposed to be the latest version, isn't it?

the  manual you mentioned in your earlier email was not the CVS one.

> > Read the first 2 paragraphs of:
>
>
> Of what? May be section 7.3? There is a suggestion to read the source of
> the parser if I want to understand an older element file. Hmmm, but my
> file is new. Ok, I understand, that the manual is a bit behind the source...

thats the one.  It's not just that the manual is behind, the manual only 
documents one possible version while the program supports many possible 
versions.  This is something I'm working on but it is slow going.

-Dan