Re: gEDA-user: Zero length pins

2010-10-02 Thread kai-martin knaak
John Doty wrote: You and I have very different ideas of what constitutes good documentation. Your comment referred to me adding a note to the wiki. Since this list of tips does not aim to be the documentation of gschem, I fail to see your point. Is there any engineering culture that uses

Re: gEDA-user: Zero length pins

2010-10-02 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 00:08 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: but should be able to easily get gEDA to cooperate with these tools, Which is currently only marginally available. Export of a portable graphics format is a very weak form of cooperation. Import is only possible in a crippled

Re: gEDA-user: Zero length pins

2010-09-30 Thread John Doty
On Sep 28, 2010, at 7:25 PM, kai-martin knaak wrote: One of the things that attracted me to gEDA years ago was how clean and concise the documentation was. Coincidently, some of the my most frustrating experiences with geda/pcb were due to a lack of readily available documentation ;-)

Re: gEDA-user: Zero length pins

2010-09-28 Thread Ineiev
On 9/28/10, kai-martin knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: So flexible, that it can't deal properly with ยต and ?, let alone right to left scripting, or Chinese. What do you mean? gschem renders both Arabic and Chinese texts without visible problems.

Re: gEDA-user: Zero length pins

2010-09-28 Thread kai-martin knaak
John Doty wrote: Unattached, it looks like a little red flag, while with a net attached it disappears. Gnetlist has no trouble treating it as a pin. By the way, on start-up, gschem complains about zero size pins in the log window. IMHO, this check should be removed. You have my

gEDA-user: Zero length pins

2010-09-27 Thread John Doty
Folks, In response to a question on the chat, I've been playing around with pins of zero graphical length. It turns out that these work quite well. Why would anyone want such? Well, they allow you to put a connection point on any graphic, not just the end of a line of a particular style. The

Re: gEDA-user: Zero length pins

2010-09-27 Thread kai-martin knaak
John Doty wrote: Appending the following line to your .sym file will get you started: P 100 100 100 100 1 0 0 Nice. I added this to the wiki. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:faq-gschem#is_it_possible_to_have_zero_length_pins Unattached, it looks like a little red flag, while with a net