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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/26/2018 1:01 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Why are space characters not allowed in the SCH library nicknames, but
> are OK for the FP libraries? Is this an overlook on SCH/PCB side?
> 
> I'd like to disable the space check in eeschema, it's very annoying if
> the library file names contain spaces.
> 
> Regards,
> Tom

For the same reason you can have spaces in symbol names, library symbol
names are not quoted in the schematic file format.  If you can figure
out a way to fix this without changing the schematic file format and
breaking anything, then I'm ok with that.  The new schematic file format
will use quoted strings for symbol library links (which will only be for
reverting or updating since symbols will be embedded in the schematic)
so I will remove this restriction once the new file formats are in play.

Cheers,

Wayne