Re: [Kicad-developers] Macro expansion in module text

2014-10-06 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 12:14:46AM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: Hi Lorenzo, Thanks for sorting this out, it'll make a great difference for my next board! If you look at the actual routine it's something like... maybe 20 lines:P Too busy at work to do it before -- Lorenzo Marcantonio

Re: [Kicad-developers] Macro expansion in module text

2014-10-06 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Lorenzo, I know it's a pain to do but this really needs to be documented somewhere in the Pcbnew user's manual. Otherwise, no one will know how to use this excellent feature except those of us on the developers mailing list. The reason I'm asking you to do this is that yesterday I was

Re: [Kicad-developers] Macro expansion in module text

2014-10-06 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 6 October 2014 16:23, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: Lorenzo, I know it's a pain to do but this really needs to be documented somewhere in the Pcbnew user's manual. Otherwise, no one will know how to use this excellent feature except those of us on the developers mailing

Re: [Kicad-developers] Macro expansion in module text

2014-10-06 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 04:42:37PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: make sure the documentation gets updated. I know there is work under way to convert to a text based format but we should continue to keep the odt documentation up to date until that actually happens. Sure, no problem. Just

Re: [Kicad-developers] Macro expansion in module text

2014-10-06 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/6/2014 11:42 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: On 6 October 2014 16:23, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: Lorenzo, I know it's a pain to do but this really needs to be documented somewhere in the Pcbnew user's manual. Otherwise, no one will know how to use this excellent feature

Re: [Kicad-developers] Macro expansion in module text

2014-10-06 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/6/2014 12:34 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 04:42:37PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: make sure the documentation gets updated. I know there is work under way to convert to a text based format but we should continue to keep the odt documentation up to date until

[Kicad-developers] Macro expansion in module text

2014-10-04 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
Sorry about the delay, we had the automechanika fair and related stuff to handle :P In fact the patch is quite simple (I already did the biggest changes...) It handles % sequences in user text primitives inside modules (usefulness already debated); now it recognizes: %% for a plain % %R inserts

Re: [Kicad-developers] Macro expansion in module text

2014-10-04 Thread Brian Sidebotham
Hi Lorenzo, Thanks for sorting this out, it'll make a great difference for my next board! Best Regards, Brian. On 4 Oct 2014 16:26, Lorenzo Marcantonio l.marcanto...@logossrl.com wrote: Sorry about the delay, we had the automechanika fair and related stuff to handle :P In fact the patch is