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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:16:53 -0800
From: Traylor Roger  <traylor AT eecs DOT oregonstate DOT edu>
To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject: [geda-user] symbol creation...
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Gang,
  After a 3 year absence from gEDA, I'm working on a new design.
  Took a brief fling with Kicad....
  ....wanted to slit my wrists.  Too many menus, dialogs, buttons, forms.

  Question 1:  
  I'm running gschem (1.6.2.20110115) on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS.  When I try to 
  add attributes such as "device" within gschem they end up way off the visible 
  area of the screen. The x and y positions are usually large negative values.
  For example:
    
  T -500 -1350 8 10 0 0 0 0 1
  device=SPI_potentiometer

  Is this normal, user error, a bug or feature?

  Question 2:
  Tragesym seems to work well with the text template input. However I like shorter
  pins.  Is the source available for tragesym so I can change it?  I only find old links
  that are broken.  Or is tragesym not used any more?

Thanks,
Roger Traylor