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

[Orion Pobursky]

I just finished doing that.  Thanks for the reminder.

-Orion

-- 
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
-George Bernard Shaw

Timothy Gould wrote:
> Hi Orion,
> 
> Perhaps include a link to the unofficial list at the top of that one
> and vice versa. Something like:
> 
> This is a  list of official meta commands, for unofficial meta
> commands used by other software see URL
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> On 10/10/06, Orion Pobursky <orion at ldraw.org> wrote:
>> Orion Pobursky 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.
>> >
>>
>> Okay, done:
>> http://www.ldraw.org/article/401
>>
>> A couple more things:
>>
>> Any agreement regarding the 1.0.0 file spec?  I find it amusing (in a
>> funny way, not in a sarcastic way) that the LSC was founded to adopt
>> 1.0.0 spec and 4 years later it still hasn't been officially ratified.
>> Was there some sort of discussion on this while I was cavorting about
>> the Western Pacific?
>>
>> We can, and probably should, create an LSC group on the LDraw.org
>> website that would allow you to edit the specifications articles.
>>
>> -Orion
>>
>> -- 
>> We don't stop playing because we grow old;
>> we grow old because we stop playing
>> -George Bernard Shaw