Re: gEDA-user: Zero length pins

[kai-martin knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Doty wrote:

>>> Unattached, it looks like a little red flag, while with a net
>>> attached it disappears. Gnetlist has no trouble treating it as
>>> a pin.

By the way, on start-up, gschem complains about zero size pins in the 
log window. IMHO, this check should be removed.


> You have my permission, although I am queasy about how the
> documentation is evolving.

The part of the "wiki" I added the note to, i Same with the chinese 
characters.
s not the documentation. It is meant to complement the documentation. 
The "FAQ" works more like a knowledge base than like a manual. 


> One of the things that attracted me to gEDA years ago was how
> clean and concise the documentation was.

Coincidently, some of the my most frustrating experiences with geda/pcb 
were due to a lack of readily available documentation ;-)
 

> Works fine with UTF-8 characters, although I don't know how to
> make it work right to left or top to bottom.

Well, Hebrew left to right is like Latin script written backwards. 
Also, try to make auto number use Japanese digits...


>> Multi line text cannot be 
>> centered or flushed to the right.
> 
> Fancy word processing features should not be included in a
> schematic drawing program. They are a distraction.

Text alignment is hardly fancy word processing. Decent looking comments 
are a requirement when it comes to incorporate a schematic in public 
documents. Think PHD thesis, presentations, manuals, proposals...


> Support for unusual graphics does not belong in gschem. They
> can be imported in the rare cases they are needed.

A company logo is not exactly a rare case. Also, publication quality 
symbols are more like fonts than like stick drawings.

 
> Well, I just drew the following, which would claim is impossible:

Well, an imported pixel format does not exactly fit to the workflow of 
an otherwise completely vectorized suite. For example, printing to PDF 
via cups-pdf barfs on PNGs. 

Real flexibility would allow to include vector graphics and/or a way to 
do formulas. The way xfig incorporates LaTeX may be worth a closer 
look.

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