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,
Thanks! This rocks! I'm already under CVS, but stupid me... I tried
every title block but the CVS one!