The keywords described below appear after the layer specifications, and control various global attributes of Xic. These are broken down into categories, which are presented in the order in which they will be written to a new technology file created by Xic. Actual order in the file is unimportant. The categories are:
Most of the keywords described in the first category (Presentation Attributes), and all of the keywords described in the second category (Colors), can also appear within print driver blocks. The only exceptions are the GridSpaceing and Snapping keyword families. The present grid spacing and snapping carries over when switching to and from print mode. For the other keywords, if they appear in a print driver block, the attribute or color will apply when that driver is active in printing mode, and in the print driver output.
In the tables that follow, the italicized quantities represent data the needs to be provided. The ``y|n'' symbol implies that one of `y' or `n' should follow the keyword. Actually, `0' (zero), or any word that begins with the letters or sequence (case insensitive) `n', `f', `of' is taken as a false value. Anything else, including no following text, is taken as true (`y' is always redundant).