X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <1442999974.23194.15.camel@ssalewski.de> Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem, best size of symbols and text? From: Stefan Salewski To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:19:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <1442845842 DOT 2167 DOT 27 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 10:42 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > Well, I was none of the complainers. In fact, I like the symbol size > to > text relation in the default library. Note, I am talking about the > size of > the symbol excluding the pins. The pins seem rather large in the > default > lib. This makes for unnecessarily awkward positioning if space is > tight. > Note, text size in relation to symbol graphic is not really an issue, because it can be arbitrary scaled all the time. Default grid size to symbol size is more important. A very fine grid gives us very many possible positions to put elements and nets, which makes it "difficult". For gschem, I would use 200 as major grid generally, but then not both ends of resistors are on grid. The pin length: General long pins give us space for text, and schematic looks not too dense populated. (My early schematics where all too dense populated.) Sometimes we need indeed short pins, but not often. Of course we may generally use short pins, which we extend with net segments generally. But that makes editing much work. It is much easier to move one resistor, than additional too short net segments. I was thinking about symbols where pin length is adjustable by attributes, in 100 units. Easy for schematic tool itself, but of course netlist generator must understand that too. The other solution is to offer a version with very short pins for symbols like resistors, and maybe an easy way (context menu) to switch between.