On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 02:18:09PM -0600, John Doty wrote: > > On Sep 11, 2010, at 1:28 PM, kai-martin knaak wrote: > > > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > >> Yes, indeed.. magic silk (and other) layers should probably go > >> and die. > > > > Please do. My local list of warts and rooms for improvement contains > > many complaints about things that can't be done with silk. Worst of > > all: You can't selectively print top-silk and bottom-silk like the > > regular layers. > > That's because they are implemented as a class, rather than just > a layer with certain properties. This sort of problem is an inevitable > consequence of classification. But when I wrote: >
If they were implemented as part of the class "layer", they could be used just like any other layer. It is because they are not a class, but a layer-like object imbued with a bunch of arbitrary attributes (which are not shared by other layers) that we have problems. Andrew _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user