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On Nov 19, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Evan Foss wrote:

> I will concede that right now the current mechanisms have a kind of
> honesty in that what you enter into the gschem is very literally
> translated into the SPICE code. However, the values as written in
> SPICE are just a shorthand invented because of the primitive days
> SPICE was written in. We don't typically write schematics for
> documentation using that notation.

I'm not objecting to that. I am pointing out that it may be nontrivial to decide what strings to translate. The thing I won't implement is a sloppy heuristic approach. A clear, easily explainable set of rules is necessary.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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