From: Anees Rehman <rean12is AT gmail DOT com>
To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [geda-help] Best way to make Power Pins explicitly visible
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:15:30 +0200
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On Thu June 27 2013 23:20:22 you wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 16:19 +0200, Anees Rehman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am following this
> > "http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk/web/CD/engapps/geda/geda-doc/tutorials/trage
> > sym/tragesym.html" tutorial to create gschem symbol for 
AT86RF233
> > tranceiver. My problem is: what is the best way to make power pins
> > visible?
> > 
> > Though when I change the style for pwr pins from none to line in 
the
> > source template they become visble in schematic but I am not sure
> > whether it is the right way to do it.
> > 
> > Regads,
> > Anees Rehman
> 
> Hello,
> 
> seems that nobody else has find time to answer your question...
> 
> I have not used tragesym for some years -- but yes, your 
assumptions
> should be true.
> 
> >bzcat 
/usr/share/doc/geda-1.8.1/wiki/media/tragesym/template2.txt.src.bz2
> >>|grep none # style can be (line,dot,clk,dotclk,none). none if only 
want
> >to add a net
> 
> So line,dot,clk,dotclk all give you visible pins with different shape --
> none is used only if you want a invisible hidden power net.
> 
> djboxsym is another nice symbol generator -- for me tragesym was 
fine,
> but I still wonder why its documentation is a spreadsheet tutorial.

Thank you Stefan,

It is unfortunate that many open source projects lack good 
documentation.