Re: gEDA-user: OT: Latex

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:33:34 -0700, John Doty wrote:

> Now why was the Export function easy to find in the main documentation,
> while this needed more digging?

Well, it is in the man page, which is where I tend to look for 
information on command line usage:

/---------------------
$man lyx
(..)
OPTIONS
(..)
 -e [--export] fmt
        where  fmt is the export format of choice.  Look on 
	Tools->Preferences->File formats->Format 
        to get an idea which parameters should be passed.
\--------------------


By the way, some of the geda tools lack a man page. Is this intentional, 
or just due to a lack of developer cycles? 

tools with a man page:
 gschem, 
 gerbv, 
 gnucap, 
 gnetlist 
 grenum
 gsymcheck

tools withouta man page:
 gattrib, 
 gsch2pcb,
 xgsch2pcb
 gschlas (*)
 gschemdoc
 gschupdate (*)
 gsymupdate (*)
 gxyrs (*)
 mk_verilog_syms (*)
 olib (*)
 pads_backannotate (*)
 refdes_renum 
 sarlacc_schem (*)
 sarlacc_sym (*)
 sch2eaglepos.sh (*)
 smash_megafile (*)
 sw2asc (*)
 tragesym

(What do the tools marked with (*) actually do?)

The man page of pcb is hardly useful. It mainly points to pcb.pdf on the 
local hard disk. The copyright notice suggests the pdf was compiled in 
2002. Unfortunately, this means, the table of command line options is 
mostly wrong. Is the appendix on the pcb file format still correct?

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