Re: gEDA-user: pad description

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Meier
Stuart, Why don't we make a copy of the latest files available through the geda website? Steve Meier Stuart Brorson wrote: >I'll second Steve's comment! I welcome any and all helpful >mods/patches to my doc. Please feel free to d/l the OpenOffice >version and make changes to it. I will put an

Re: gEDA-user: pad description

2005-12-04 Thread Stuart Brorson
I'll second Steve's comment! I welcome any and all helpful mods/patches to my doc. Please feel free to d/l the OpenOffice version and make changes to it. I will put any and all helpful updates on my webpage. Don't forget to put your name in the chage block if you do add to the doc! Stuart >

Re: gEDA-user: pad description

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Meier
Don, Stuart last updated a document I started, "Footprint Creation for the open-source layout program PCB" http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/land_patterns_20050129.pdf Open office source http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/land_patterns_20050129.sxw Since you are reading the parse_y.y file perhaps you would

Re: gEDA-user: pad description

2005-12-04 Thread don
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:49:37PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > Would it be possible to put up an up-to-date description of pad syntax > to the PCB website? Its not just pads, the manual has old descriptions of many parts of the file format. I've resorted to reading the code (parse_y.y). Don R

Re: gEDA-user: PCB pad dimensions

2005-12-04 Thread Dan McMahill
DJ Delorie wrote: Perhaps this is a sign of a problem with texinfo? As much as GNU has done a lot of things well, we should admit they sometimes go off track. Er, we should switch tools because one user hasn't read its documentation yet? http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/htm

Re: gEDA-user: -0 syntax error

2005-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
In your src/parse_l.l try changing this: DECIMAL -?[1-9][0-9]*|0 FLOATING-?[0-9]*"."[0-9]* To this: DECIMAL -?([1-9][0-9]*|0) FLOATING-?([0-9]*"."[0-9]*)

Re: gEDA-user: PCB pad dimensions

2005-12-04 Thread DJ Delorie
> Perhaps this is a sign of a problem with texinfo? As much as GNU > has done a lot of things well, we should admit they sometimes go off > track. Er, we should switch tools because one user hasn't read its documentation yet? http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Image-Sy

Re: gEDA-user: PCB pad dimensions

2005-12-04 Thread Bert Douglas
Dan McMahill wrote: Karel Kulhavy wrote: http://pcb.sourceforge.net/Pad.html Why is there a special page dedicated for this minor bit of information and is not in the PCB manual instead? Is this information somehow the picture was drawn well before I had access to the manual. Since then

Re: gEDA-user: PCB pad dimensions

2005-12-04 Thread Dan McMahill
Karel Kulhavy wrote: http://pcb.sourceforge.net/Pad.html Why is there a special page dedicated for this minor bit of information and is not in the PCB manual instead? Is this information somehow deeply important for the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, so it needs such a prominent

Re: gEDA-user: newbie questions

2005-12-04 Thread Eric Daine
This was posted a while back on this list, I managed to play with spice a bit with its help. Good section on first steps with ngspice http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk/urop05/files/gedalib/starting_gEDA.pdf Good luck to you, ED Ron Crummett wrote: Hi all - I am an electrical engineering studen

Re: gEDA-user: -0 syntax error

2005-12-04 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sunday 04 December 2005 07:53 am, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > if -0 occurs in Pad[ description in element file, it generates syntax > error. When it's changed to 0, it's OK. > > I suggest to change the number reading code to accept -0. -0 is a > perfectly valid number and is equal to 0. Unrelated o

gEDA-user: -0 syntax error

2005-12-04 Thread Karel Kulhavy
if -0 occurs in Pad[ description in element file, it generates syntax error. When it's changed to 0, it's OK. I suggest to change the number reading code to accept -0. -0 is a perfectly valid number and is equal to 0. CL<

gEDA-user: PCB pad dimensions

2005-12-04 Thread Karel Kulhavy
http://pcb.sourceforge.net/Pad.html Why is there a special page dedicated for this minor bit of information and is not in the PCB manual instead? Is this information somehow deeply important for the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, so it needs such a prominent placement? CL<

gEDA-user: pad description

2005-12-04 Thread Karel Kulhavy
Would it be possible to put up an up-to-date description of pad syntax to the PCB website? I would be interested what's the pad witdth (smaller dimension) in this case: Pad[0 -131000 0 131000 6000 2800 1 "Solder" "2" 0x0180] CL<

Re: gEDA-user: newbie questions

2005-12-04 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi Ron -- > So my questions are: > -is ngspice what I am looking for? A Linux circuit simulator? Both ngspice and gnucap will work for you. Ngspice is exactly SPICE ported to Linux. Gnucap is a totally new circuit simulator with a more modern architecture than SPICE, but able to read SPICE syn

Re: gEDA-user: newbie questions

2005-12-04 Thread Dave McGuire
On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:49 AM, Ron Crummett wrote: I am an electrical engineering student and will be taking a class in communication circuits next semester. My teacher has told me that we will be working a lot with WinSpice and, well, those first three little letters tell me that I probably won'