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--- config:start [2023/04/11 14:23] – [Technology-specific configuration] rajit
+++ config:start [2025/03/25 10:32] (current) – [Generic configuration settings] rajit
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 end
 </code>
-Sometimes it is useful to export files from the ACT format to other formats to interact with external tools. Examples of such formats include Verilog and SPICE. Since these are different languages, they use different syntax for identifiers. (Different commercial SPICE simulators use different identifier syntax too.) ACT identifiers and names include characters including ''['', '']'', ''.'', ''<'', ''>'' (among others). The ACT library provides a generic //name mangling// feature that can be used to convert them into identifiers that only use alphanumeric characters (i.e. basic C-style identifiers). The ''mangle_chars'' string specifies which characters should be //mangled//. Up to 36 characters can be mangled. By default, the ''_'' character is used to mangle characters. If this needs to be changed, then a different character can be set by modifying the ''mangle_letter'' setting.
+Sometimes it is useful to export files from the ACT format to other formats to interact with external tools. Examples of such formats include Verilog and SPICE. Since these are different languages, they use different syntax for identifiers. (Different commercial SPICE simulators use different identifier syntax too.) ACT identifiers and names include characters including ''['', '']'', ''.'', ''<'', ''>'' (among others). The ACT library provides a generic //name mangling// feature that can be used to convert them into identifiers that only use alphanumeric characters (i.e. basic C-style identifiers). The ''mangle_chars'' string specifies which characters should be //mangled//. Up to 36 characters can be mangled. By default, the ''_'' character is used to mangle characters.
 <code>
 begin act
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 end
 </code>
+If the mangle character needs to be changed, then a different character can be set by modifying the ''mangle_letter'' setting. To learn more, take a look at some [[.mangling|examples]].
+<code>
+begin act
+  int output_window_width 72
+end
+</code>
+For tools that use pretty-printing, this sets the output window width for a line break.
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 would use ''lvt'' for the ''in'' input to the pull-down network, but ''svt'' for the other devices needed.
+ACT also has support for generic two-terminal devices. The standard configuration option uses this to support capacitors.
+<code>
+begin act
+string_table prs_device "cap"
+end
+</code>
+This permits you to write:
+The first flavor in the list (''svt'' in the example) is the default value if the flavor is unspecified. This means that
+<code>
+prs {
+   cap (in,GND)
+   cap<5,2> (out,GND)
+}
+</code>
+These are capacitors, the first one being a unit capacitor while the second is 10 units (5 x 2) in size.
 ==== Specification directives ====