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Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb] mainline: redundant attributes: bug or feature?
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Hi,

El 15 de agosto de 2017 20:42:27 CEST, "Girvin Herr (gherrl AT fastmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> escribió:
>
>
>On 08/14/2017 10:28 PM, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com)
>
>[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>> I suspect my thoughts were this: the user API should require/expect
>>> unique keys (hence get-by-value) but the low level stuff should be
>able
>>> to preserve (erroneous) redundant keys when loading/saving a *.pcb
>file.
>>> Making load/store git friendly is a goal in pcb.
>> Attribute with same name added several times may in sort of be
>interpreted as a list of values. In gschem it is possible to add
>several attributes with same name but it never make sense and it's not
>possible to know for sure which value is used.
>Greetings,
>As a user, I might add my 2-cents to this discussion by saying that I 
>use multiple instances of the "Comment" symbol attribute in my 
>schematics. I would hate to see this capability be removed. Comment 
>attributes to not span multiple text lines. Therefore, I need to add as
>
>many "Comment" attributes as I need lines of text.

IIRC, multiple lines texts are supported in gschem... Doesn't it work for attributes?

Regards,

Carlos