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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:27:19 +0100
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On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 13:40 +0100, Wojciech Kazubski wrote:

> 
> I often use gschem to create publication quality circuit diagrams. See this 
> for example:
> 
> http://www.ire.pw.edu.pl/~wkazubski/Wzmacniacz-RC
> 
>  In such cases indexes in subscript are often used. They are more readable 
> than in standard text. For example load resistance RL may be confused with R 
> times L, especially if used in a formula.
> In the paper above I made subscript by manually placing smaller text in proper 
> place.
> 
> Wojciech Kazubski
> 

Thanks, you have convinced me that subscript is useful.

Indeed, for my ruby gschem clone 'publication quality' is my desire -- I
was not really satisfied with gschem missing features to suppress pin
numbers, select font size, line width, colors and much more. All that is
very easy with cairo. 

So I think we may add support for advanced text layout for geda file
format. I think currently we have only font size and overbar.

What may we need beside subscript? Too much layout options may look
cluttered in schematics. Do we desire

-bold
-italics
-underline
-superscript
-various font faces

How can we add this, without breaking existing code?
Or is SVG/PDF export for post-processing with tools like inkscape the
better way?

By the way, I have just added much faster scrolling to my gschem clone,
I put the latest version on my page. It is absolutely useless still, but
testing is fun.

Best regards

Stefan Salewski