Please vote on the proposal below. Please modify the Subject to include your name and vote, in addition to giving your vote in the text.

1. Remove the following sentence from the File Name portion of the LDraw Files section:
   

   Quote:For reasons of cross-platform and cross-(programming) language portability, the use of white space characters (such as space and tab) in filenames is strongly discouraged.

   
   
2. Update the sentence immediately following the above to read as follows:
   

   Quote:Special characters, such as &, #, |, and ?, should be avoided as they may also cause cross-platform issues and create problems when used in URLs.

   Note: the only change to the existing sentence is the removal of the word "Other" from the beginning, and the capitalization of "Special".
   

When using
Quote
I would prefer the system to default to using

[quote=person]
stuff
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instead of

person Wrote
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> stuff

because [quote] preserves bbcode whereas the current method makes no guarantee (see this post and others).

Also, reformatting is rather tedious, if you want to quote just a portion of the text, each line could potentially need to be modified in order to justify the text, and any text decorations are applied as they are not intended to be:
> this text has
> emphasis blah blah...

Using [quote] would require less work for posters wishing to quote specially formatted text, and

Jean-Philippe Wrote:

Jean-Philippe Wrote:Personally, I think it looks better, wouldn't you agree?

Why yes, I would. (They can also be easily nested.)

When I try to set the LDraw dir in LDView the file dialog pops up for half a second, then LDView closes. I have reinstalled the .deb package several times and a still get this problem. What do I do? In my mind LDView is the best viewer out there I need to get it up and running. I tried using the built in function to download the parts library, but when the file dialog for that pops up, LDView still crashes. :-(

When using LPUB, and there is a ROTSTEP, is there any way to have LPUB add arrows indicating the rotation, or is my best bet to get some arrow images do the "Add image" function on those steps?

Thanks!

Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-LSlHdBv4E

are we moving towards real 3D "displays" now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1YNyQqbiF0

again, amazing to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX1cO2XhMrg

this is not my creation, but I just saw it and was amazed:

CubeStormer II solves the Rubik's Cube puzzle faster than the human world record.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0LfkIut2M&hd=1

During fixing of utf8 handling in LDCad I stumbled on this part: "u588p02c03.dat".

One of the keyword lines seems mangled. Even in utf8 editors (it comes out partly Korean or something).

This can't be right?

The line above it (with elephant etc) does contains valid utf8 coding though.

I've made this a sticky thread. Please add parts whose absence makes a major gap in the library. Try to stick to older parts (more than 1 year on the PT) but if a new part is important and appears to be overlooked (eg. new basics like tiles, plates and bricks) add it too.

And for those who wish to help review but don't know how, try this tutorial.

For example:

The 4.5V and 12V have been on the PT for a long time.