Wayne, would you rather I make this change and submit an updated monolithic patch (will take a few days), or would you rather I make a second patch on top of this one to be applied in a second commit?
JP, the horizontal grid is already flexible, but the autoplacer doesn't do vertical texts. How would that even work? It has to arrange them in a grid somehow. Texts are always placed horizontally with respect to the sheet. On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 07:43:47PM +0100, jp charras wrote: > Le 12/12/2015 18:26, Chris Pavlina a écrit : > > I actually thought a bit about that, and wasn't sure how to reconcile > > "make the labels look nice" with "we like 50mil grids". But then, I went > > off-grid for horizontal _anyway_, so... *shrug* > > > > It'll take some reworking of the placement code to make the vertical > > grid flexible - not something I'd probably bother doing on my own, but > > if other people want it, let me know and I'll have no problem > > implementing that. > > > > The 50 mils grid is good (read: mandatory) to place pins. > So "we like this grid" for connected items (pins, labels, wires ..) > > But for graphics items a smaller grid is often needed. > > Fields can be seen as graphics items. > I am thinking a smaller grid like 10 mils could be used to place them. > > (the horizontal grid should be also flexible, especially for vertical texts) > > Thanks. > > -- > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
