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From:	"Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] The new to do
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> On 15 Jul 2015, at 23:20, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 15 Jul 2015, at 22:22, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Trace widths was just a real-world example of where this might be useful.
>>> 
>>> After years of dealing with DJ, I simply don’t believe that was his intent. If it was, he could easily have stated it in a more general way.
>> 
>> Which just proves that you went off half-cocked in response to an email that you didn't even bother to read properly. DJ was not part of that discussion. The 'trace widths' was a problem raised by Dave McGuire, which Roland Lutz and I then briefly discussed how to solve in a clean, general manner.
> 
> You wanted to change gschem, but no change is required. The problem is to give gnetlist a way to see net segments and their attributes. I have *never* opposed giving gnetlist better views into the schematic data. Indeed, I encourage all such efforts. 

Yes, a change is required in gschem. At the moment gschem automatically condenses all continuous, straight line net segments into a single net line. We need to stop this, or at least allow it to be overridden.

Chris

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