Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

[Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:30:43 -0700
Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 02:09:13AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> > There is already some information in user preference that should 
> > really be configurabel on a per project base. Skipping through the
> > file:
> > 
> > grid-units-mm = 1
> 
> This will turn into
>   grid-units = mm
> 
> I was quite frustrated to find that the .pcb file format has no
> way to store this (though it does store the grid visibility).
> Right now we check the grid spacing and try to guess which of
> mm/mil the user was using.
> 
> Likely I will use an (Attribute "grid-unit" "mm") for this in
> future.

DJ suggests using a hierarchical namespacing of the Attribute names, as
in 

  Attribute("grid:unit" "mm");

Such organization of the Attribute namespace would help greatly.

Regards,
Colin


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