Re: gEDA-user: Refdes odd issue

[Vanessa Dannenberg <vanessadannenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:57, DJ Delorie wrote:

> It is up to you to name the elements so that their layout-name names agrees
> with the netlist. 

Ah yes, I remember now.  I did see this in the manual but forgot about it.

Now, the way I read this description, it is not desireable to have a footprint 
(as a whole that is) with lowercase letters in the name at all.  In that 
case, shouldn't PCB either warn me or automatically change everything to 
uppercase in whatever refdes I give to the part?

This wouldn't affect programs like gschem which surely generate netlists of a 
comparable form (when multiple gates/slots are present), just PCB and just 
when the user is manually naming a footprint.

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