Re: gEDA-user: Distributed Symbols for Complex Devices(like Processors). How?

[kai-martin knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Doty wrote:

> It is absolutely not a workaround: it is the way a well-factored system
> works.
> 
> Go to the board and write 1000 times "The schematics are only a modest
> part of the documentation".

Go to the board and write a 1000 times: 
"An UI is meant to give access to commonly needed actions"
Printing every sheet in a hierarchy is surely a common need. Note, that it 
is  "UI",  not "GUI".


> What gschem can easily do is provide graphics representing a schematic
> page. What it has no business attempting is assembling those graphics,
> text, TeX, tabular data, simulation results, etc. into a document. 

I am not talking about assembly to a valid documentation, but about the 
production of the parts and pieces. That is, graphics representation of the 
schematics, formated in a way other tools can deal with (EPS, PNG, ...)


> There are other tools for this.

To output all sheets of a hierarchical design, some entity has to parse the 
schematics for included sub sheets. Currently, this entity is the user, or a 
sophisticated script written by the user. 

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