On May 13, 2009, at 12:42 PM, al davis wrote: > On Wednesday 13 May 2009, John Doty wrote: >> The graphics problem is 1000x harder, but gets almost no >> mention in your proposal. > > The intent is not to translate the symbols themselves, any more > than moving between text markup formats translates fonts.
The difference is that a schematic is profoundly graphical, in a way that text isn't. > > My proposal does consider placement, which should be enough. I think few would consider this enough. Without graphics, placement is of little use. And for graphic-free translation, the pins2gsch approach is pretty trivial, at least for simple netlist formats (Verilog is somewhat harder to parse). John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user