Category:LDraw Files Syntax - Revision history

Steffen at 10:46, 23 February 2019

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	You can find the definition of that syntax at		You can find the definition of that syntax at

	* ~~http~~://www.ldraw.org/~~documentation~~/~~ldraw-org-file-format-standards~~.html		* https://www.ldraw.org/article/218.html

	The syntax is taken care of by the [[LDraw Standards Board]].		The syntax is taken care of by the [[LDraw Standards Board]].

Steffen at 10:45, 23 February 2019

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	* the syntax is quite compact:		* the syntax is quite compact:
	** the most frequent elements can be written in simple, compact syntax, without lots of syntax clutter around it (opposed to, for example, [[XML]])		** the most frequent elements can be written in simple, compact syntax, without lots of syntax clutter around it (opposed to, for example, [[XML]])
	* being UTF-8, the syntax easily supports all international characters, ~~like~~ Danish, French, German, Japanese, ~~Chinese characters~~		* being UTF-8, the syntax easily supports all international characters, for example Danish ø, French é, German ö, Japanese, etc.pp.

	== Disadvantages ==		== Disadvantages ==

Steffen at 10:43, 23 February 2019

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	** easy to store on source code revision control systems (like for example [[git]])		** easy to store on source code revision control systems (like for example [[git]])
	* the syntax is quite compact:		* the syntax is quite compact:
	** the most frequent elements can be written in simple, compact syntax, without lots of syntax clutter around it		** the most frequent elements can be written in simple, compact syntax, without lots of syntax clutter around it (opposed to, for example, [[XML]])
	(opposed to, for example, [[XML]])		* being UTF-8, the syntax easily supports all international characters, like Danish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese characters

	== Disadvantages ==		== Disadvantages ==

Steffen at 10:41, 23 February 2019

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	** easy to store on source code revision control systems (like for example [[git]])		** easy to store on source code revision control systems (like for example [[git]])
	* the syntax is quite compact:		* the syntax is quite compact:
	** the most frequent elements can be written in simple, compact syntax, without lots of syntax clutter around it (as for example in [[XML]])		** the most frequent elements can be written in simple, compact syntax, without lots of syntax clutter around it
			(opposed to, for example, [[XML]])

	== Disadvantages ==		== Disadvantages ==

Steffen at 19:24, 2 April 2018

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	* [[:Category:Software]]		* [[:Category:Software]]

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Steffen at 19:23, 2 April 2018

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	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

	* [[:Category:File Format]]
	* [[:Category:Software]]		* [[:Category:Software]]

Steffen at 19:20, 2 April 2018

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	* [[:Category:File Format]]		* [[:Category:File Format]]
			* [[:Category:Software]]

Steffen at 18:05, 2 April 2018

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	* the syntax is "line-by-line based", this makes designing statements very difficult which aim to refer to a bunch of lines as a whole		* the syntax is "line-by-line based", this makes designing statements very difficult which aim to refer to a bunch of lines as a whole

			== See Also ==

			* [[:Category:File Format]]

Steffen: Created page with "'''LDRAW files''' need to have a specific '''syntax''' to be understood by the various tools. The syntax has been invented by James Jessiman and carefully extended since..."

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Created page with "'''LDRAW files''' need to have a specific '''syntax''' to be understood by the various tools. The syntax has been invented by James Jessiman and carefully extended since..."

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'''LDRAW files''' need to have a specific '''syntax''' to be understood by the various tools.

The syntax has been invented by [[James Jessiman]] and carefully extended since then.

You can find the definition of that syntax at

* http://www.ldraw.org/documentation/ldraw-org-file-format-standards.html

The syntax is taken care of by the [[LDraw Standards Board]].

== Advantages ==

* the syntax is text-based (not: binary), which makes it
** easily human-readable
** easily diffable by diff tools
** easy to store on source code revision control systems (like for example [[git]])
* the syntax is quite compact:
** the most frequent elements can be written in simple, compact syntax, without lots of syntax clutter around it (as for example in [[XML]])

== Disadvantages ==

* the syntax is "line-by-line based", this makes designing statements very difficult which aim to refer to a bunch of lines as a whole