Re: gEDA-user: Comments in PCB element files?

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Hi --

> Can comments be placed in PCB element files?
> Like lines that start with "#" or ";"  for example?
> Did not see that documented or in any of the example element files I looked 
> at.

I put comments into PCB element files (newlib) & it works just fine.
Use # to preface the comments, just like in bash or Perl.  The only
problem is that PCB strips the comments before embedding the newlib
components into the .pcb file.  Maybe this could be changed someday? 

Stuart