LDCad META commands.

[Roland Melkert]

Which LDCAD meta commands are you talking about exactly? Is it all PATH_* and SNAP_* commands? Also SPRING_*? Anything else?

Snapping mostly.

What exactly does "making them official mean"? I suppose they will still be meta commands, won't they? Will they still start with !LDCAD or what will the syntax be?

It would mainly give the part authors the option to include them (snapping info) into the official library.
If the meta becomes official the !LDCAD will be dropped. The exact format might also differ from the ones used now in LDCad. I'm open to any changes for the better

More importantly, what does "making them official" mean for other editors/viewers? Does it mean for example that an editor that decides to implement snapping should do it this way instead of inventing its own meta commands? For that maybe an "official recommendation" would be sufficient instead of making it part of the standard. Or does it mean that every standard-compliant editor has to support these commands?

Other editor could use the information knowing it won't change suddenly in the future.
You can still invent your own meta/snapping format but it would mean defining or converting all that information yourself.