Re: gEDA-user: Is there a more detailed gEDA symbol edit turorial?

["Mark Rages" <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Joerg <joergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John Luciani wrote:
>> For simple modifications I would use EMACS.
>> The file format is very simple. Should be quite
>> easy to find the string 74141 ;-)
>>
>
> Ok, yes, with any kind of ASCII editor I could "wing it", I was just
> hoping there was a more elegant way. But maybe not. Personally I don't
> think it's good to hard-embed such text in part symbols but that's just
> my two cents.

I've done several medium-size boards with gschem and I've had to use a
text editor for each one.   I suggest you open the file in the editor
and look at the file format docs.  (It's a very simple format,
actually).

I just finished a pair of boards at 5:00 this morning (am I the only
one who can only concentrate on layout work when I'm dead tired?) For
the schematic capture part, I was bouncing between:

 - gchem
 - emacs
 - gattrib (spreadsheet-like attribute editor)
 - shell (eg: 'grep refdes= filename.sch | sort | uniq -d' for a list
of duplicated reference designators)

Once you learn how the parts fit together, the process works pretty
well.  If it's any comfort, gschem is user-interface heaven compared
to pcb, the layout tool.

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
-- 
Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
markrages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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