Re: gEDA-user: Gschem title box enhancement request...

[Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>]

On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 09:39 AM, Bill Cox wrote:

> The title box stuff certainly looks good, but there's no schematic 
> title in them, which is all I realy want.  I have to add documentation 
> attributes myself.  Also, if I ever re-name a schematic (which I seem 
> to do often), I have to also remember to change the title on the 
> schematic.
I find that schematics get renamed a lot less when you start using 
something like CVS, which doesn't have very good rename capabilities :-)

> So...  Is there any way to get gschem to display the design name? 
> Perhaps some sort of parameter substitution where if I write 
> comment={design_name}?
I don't know of any such system inside gschem.

However, you can try something like cvstitleblock-1.sch. The CVS 
$keyword$ tags get updated (to $keyword: value$) every time you commit 
or update files.

It takes a little time to wrap your head around version control, but it 
is a decent way to share schematics in your development group. I would 
suggest CVS (for stability) or Subversion (has a cleaner design, but is 
more bleeding-edge). BitKeeper may also do keyword substitution, but 
I'm not interested in the ensuing flamefest from such a suggestion :-D

On the Windows side of things, there is a right-click menu extension 
called TortoiseCVS (or TortoiseSVN for Subversion) which makes version 
control rather painless in day-to-day work. For *nix, if you are scared 
of the command line, there are a few graphical front ends such as 
Cervisia for KDE.

HTH,

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Charles Lepple
clepple@ghz.cc