RE: gEDA-user: promotion of attributes

["Sribalan Santhanam" <sribalan@pasemi.com>]

I'm using gschem in a hierarchichal/digital CMOS enviroment
in the same vein as Bill Cox. 

There are attributes I have  given to cmos transistors 
and other symbols that I for the most part do not wish to be
visible/seen
due to clutter but I do wish to have promoted since
I have the need to modify them on occasion. Hspice
specific parameters are an example (like the 'm' number)
There are work arounds obviously but selective promoting would be
helpful.

Your suggestion about using the rc file to force
promotion on the specified attributes would work fine.

/sri 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-geda-user@seul.org [mailto:owner-geda-user@seul.org] On
Behalf Of Ales Hvezda
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:31 PM
To: geda-user@seul.org
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: promotion of attributes 


>Is there a way to promote selective attributes in a symbol?

	Not at the moment.

>
>I have symbols with many attributes. I want to promote
>
>a) the visible attributes
>b) only "some" of the invisible attributes
>
>a) is easy.
>
>For (b) I know that there is a way of promoting "all" the invisible 
>attributes. My question is , is there a way of adding something to the 
>symbol so that I can just promote a selective few invisible ones?

	No mechanism exists for this currently, though there was some 
interest a while ago about being able to selectively promote attributes
(namely the source= attribute for example).  Looks like I will have to
start thinking about this.  Chances are I will create a list somewhere
(in an rc file) which lists all attributes which are promoted regardless
of their visibility.

	Out of curiosity, in what context do you want to promote 
invisible attributes (i.e. why do you want to do this)?

								-Ales