> It seems I should pay more attention to the manual "where there's nice > short instructions for creating footprints, which doesn't cover things > like soldermasks though" (and less to the wiki, where there is an > obscure 36-step instruction to create footprints, but it doesn't say > that you should "enable view soldermask as step 14.5").
I plead guilty to that. I did a screen scrape of an instruction posted by another geda-user contributor (who shall remain anonymous) and just stuck it onto the wiki. If somebody wants to take the time to clean up this instruction, I would be forever grateful. Otherwise, wait until the April Circuit Cellar magazine comes out, and follow the instructions in there. ;-) Stuart