Re: gEDA-user: How does slotting work???

[Werner Hoch <werner.ho@xxxxxx>]

Hi Christoph,

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 22:30, Christoph Lechner wrote:
> I'm just trying to get slotting in gEDA work. I've
> placed a few LM339 "quarters" (a LM339 consists
> of four identical comperators, for those who don't know :-)
> on the sheet, connected them somehow.
>
> But how can I make him pack up to four of those
> comperators into one IC? At the moment the utilisation
> is quite bad as he (refdes_renum) numbers the comperators
> in the usual way: U1, U2, ...

The autonumber text dialog does not support slotting yet. 

> But I want something like: U1A, U1B, U1C, U1D, U2A, ...

> How can I archieve this?

Manually you have to:
 -- change the refdes=U? to the suggested U1A, ...
 -- add the attributes slot=1 to slot=4 to the symbols

regards
Werner