Wow, I'm really surprised to hear about feature tables in the wild. That wiki article applied to InterPlot V8 XM. The feature table editors have been discontinued for years and are no longer delivered, even in an unsupported fashion, in CONNECT Edition. I don't remember the editors having the ability to save to design script, but the wiki article says so so I guess they could. Regardless, the products -- both ProjectWise InterPlot Organizer and MicroStation printing -- continue to support feature tables as supported input files. With MicroStation printing, just specify them where you would otherwise specify a design script. So you can continue using the feature tables as-is, editing them in a text editor if needed. The syntax, while undocumented, is not difficult to understand. If the feature tables aren't very large, you can also try converting them to design scripts manually. The pattern is simple -- the design script would take the form of an if-then-elseif-elseif-elseif-etc-etc structure. The 'def' lines in the feature table would make up the design script "if" comparison criteria, and the feature table "sym" lines would be the resymbolization actions for each block (rewritten using the appropriate design script keywords of course). The feature table only supported one set of comparison criteria and action statements per element; it didn't have anywhere near the flexibility of a design script.
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