Having read the gschem user guide (on-line version) on attributes and attribute promotion (several times) I am even more confused, and I'd be grateful if someone could clarify things for me.
For investigation purposes I instantiate a 7400-1.sym on my gschem page. I have (attribute-promotion "enabled") in my gafrc file, and I don't have promote-invisible enabled. (Incidentally, the manual says to use gschemrc to set these - is this wrong or can it be either?) I edit attributes for the 7400 component, and I see just device, refdes and footprint. Q1 are these the "promoted" attributes? Q2 the gschem user guide (on line) says "The device= attribute is not promoted." So why does it appear in the attributes list? Q3 the gschem user guide says "if you place an unattached visible attribute inside a symbol and then instantiate that symbol, then that unattached attribute gets “promoted”; that is, it becomes an attached attribute." But the footprint attribute is not visible and seems to get promoted. Why? The slot attribute (and others) looks just the same (not visible) but is not promoted. Q4 How do I tell if an attribute is attached or unattached? Is this just a case of documentation lagging development, or am I missing something? -- Peter Baxendale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user