Re: gEDA-user: New user question

[Oren Laskin <oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:28:07 -0500 (EST),
Stuart Brorson wrote:
> True.  In gschem all netnames are global, so you can do an off-page
> connection by just naming the net the same on both pages.  IIRC, Orcad
> forces you to use off-page connection symbols, which has never made 
> sense to me -- it's just extra work & doesn't clarify anything or
> prevent any errors.  Personally, I prefer it the gschem way.  ViewDraw
> -- a schematic capture package waaaay superior to Orcad -- does it
> this way too, FWIW.  

I am actually most familiar with viewdraw though haven't used it in a
couple years.  We had a script written that would put the pages that
nets went to next to the nets on each page.  That why we could easily
verify all the nets went to where we expected fairly easily.  I know
it's not a part of viewdraw but was extremely convenient.  Viewdraw
also does have a sense of page numbers.

Oren