Re: gEDA-user: gschem symbols -- why use simple text for device name?

2008-09-12 Thread Stefan Salewski
Am Mittwoch, den 10.09.2008, 13:42 +0200 schrieb Bernd Jendrissek: My abstract-symbols branch makes this more manageable, IMHO. You edit the part side of the component to carry the right part name, not the symbol side, which is just a generic NAND gate. I've attached an example that you

Re: gEDA-user: gschem symbols -- why use simple text for device name?

2008-09-10 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Stefan Salewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many symbols shipped with gEDA/gschem use simple text to display the name of the device, i.e. MAX232 or 7404. Tragesym does this too -- so I did this for my own symbols. But is this really a good choice? I think there

gEDA-user: gschem symbols -- why use simple text for device name?

2008-09-09 Thread Stefan Salewski
Many symbols shipped with gEDA/gschem use simple text to display the name of the device, i.e. MAX232 or 7404. Tragesym does this too -- so I did this for my own symbols. But is this really a good choice? I think there are at least three disadvantages: 1. If I use a logic symbol like 7404 I may

Re: gEDA-user: gschem symbols -- why use simple text for device name?

2008-09-09 Thread John Luciani
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Stefan Salewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many symbols shipped with gEDA/gschem use simple text to display the name of the device, i.e. MAX232 or 7404. Tragesym does this too -- so I did this for my own symbols. But is this really a good choice? I think there