> > I put "ceramic 50V, rm=5mm" (without quotes) into package attribute in > gattrib and it saved into the file only "ceramic 50V, rm". Is this the > intended behaviour?
Libgeda handles attributes in the following way. An attribute is a text string of form "foo=bar", stored as a single entity in the linked list of graphical objects which represent your schematic. In this case, "foo" is the attribute name, and "bar" is the attribute value. An attribute is not different from ordinary annotation text, except that it has the "=" sign separating the attribute name from the attribute value. The "=" sign is what distinguishes an attribute from normal text. Gattrib (through libgeda) will take your attribute value string and store it alongside the attribute name. Therefore, what you stored into the linked list was something like the string "package=ceramic 50V, rm=5mm". Libgeda will do unexpected things when it finds an attribute (or a string) with an unexpected number of "=" signs in it. In your case, it found the second "=" sign, and dropped it and everything after it when it stored the result. Is this the intended behaviour? Well, it's the way gEDA was designed to work. Sure, I think the way gEDA/libgeda handles attributes is a little sub-optimal. However, re-architecting it is a real pain, and most likely will never happen. The moral of the story is: don't put an "=" sign into the value field of an attribute. Stuart