[Ldraw-content] Re: [LSC] Web page request: List of official meta-commands

[Orion Pobursky]

The splitting into two articles is great idea, glad you thought of it. 
In fact, the whole specifications section probably should be looked over 
and evaluated for improvement.

-Orion

-- 
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Timothy Gould wrote:
> Hi Orion,
> 
> Thanks for offering to do this. If you don't feel like it let me know
> and I'll take it up.
> 
> I've changed the title of this article
> (http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=342) 
> 
> to Unofficial metas so that we can make a new article for Official
> metas and cross-link the two. It seems more sensible to separate them
> but keep them consistent.
> 
> Tim
> 
> On 10/10/06, Orion Pobursky <orion at ldraw.org> wrote:
>> William Howard wrote:
>> > The following is the list of meta-commands (and any related article 
>> number)
>> > that the LSC believes to be current
>> >
>> > Could we get a page on the web site with these details please
>> >
>> > The page should link to article 342 "List of Known META Commands and 
>> the
>> > Programs That Use Them"
>> >
>> >
>> > Author       (refer LDraw 0.27 file format - article 45)
>> > BFC          (refer BFC de-facto spec - article 217)
>> > !CATEGORY    (refer category and keywords spec - article 340)
>> > CLEAR        (refer LDraw 0.27 file format - article 45)
>> > !CMDLINE     (refer header spec - article 398)
>> > !COLOUR      (refer colour specification - article 299)
>> > !HELP        (refer header specification - article 398)
>> > !HISTORY     (refer header specification - article 398)
>> > !KEYWORDS    (refer category and keywords spec - article 340)
>> > !LDRAW_ORG   (refer header specification - article 398)
>> > LDRAW_ORG    (deprecated in favour of !LDRAW_ORG)
>> > !LICENSE     (refer header specification - article 398)
>> > Name         (refer LDraw 0.27 file format - article 45)
>> > PAUSE        (refer LDraw 0.27 file format - article 45)
>> > PRINT        (refer LDraw 0.27 file format - article 45)
>> > SAVE         (refer LDraw 0.27 file format - article 45)
>> > STEP         (refer LDraw 0.27 file format - article 45)
>> > WRITE        (refer LDraw 0.27 file format - article 45)
>> >
>> > If the page could also reference the LSC decision to prefix all new 
>> official
>> > meta-commands with a ! this would be good (see
>> > http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/lsc/2003-December/000063.html)
>>
>> I'll work on this today.
>>
>> -Orion