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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 22:52:08 -0800
From: Colin D Bennett <colin AT gibibit DOT com>
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:15:09 +0100
Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 16:55 -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > Anyway, why can't a schematic editor produce clean and beautiful
> > output??
> > 
> 
> Because it may need 5 seconds for startup in that case ;-)
> 
> Seriously, can we expect an FOSS schematics editor produce as nice
> graphics as inkscape and as nice text as LaTeX at the same time,
> and being easy to use also.

What is there in Wojciech's schematic [1] that would require the
likes of Inkscape?  It has some very nicely designed and cleanly
rendered symbols with pleasing line thicknesses, etc., but there is
no need for gradient fills, XML parsing, blur effects, and so many
other features that are part of Inkscape.

[1] http://www.ire.pw.edu.pl/~wkazubski/Wzmacniacz-RC

Yes, TeX does produce beautiful text.  Yes, it is big.  But surely
we can produce nice-looking subscripts and superscripts without
TeX.  I'm not opposed to an optional feature that makes use of TeX,
however.

What is really required for “publication-quality” schematics
besides some slightly improve symbols (I think some of Kai-Martin's
symbols on gedasymbols.org are particularly elegant, for instance).

Regards,
Colin