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On Mar 10, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On 03/10/2012 01:52 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote:
>> I'm not opposed to an optional feature that makes use of TeX,
>> however.
> 
>  Just to jump in for a moment (I'm busy...in the middle of designing a board with gschem!)...I would absolutely LOVE this.  I've no idea of how it could be implemented, though.  TeX can pretty easily render to arbitrary-resolution output devices, but though I've used it forever I've never written any output support for it.  Would we somehow talk TeX into generating vectors/strokes that gschem would then be made to understand?
> 
>  Does anyone have any thoughts of how that could be done?
> 

Well, at Noqsi we have discussed making a gschem->TikZ filter based on lambda-geda (https://github.com/xcthulhu/lambda-geda). I use TikZ for timing diagrams in the LaTeX project docs already, so it's an obvious step. But Matt's off at grad school, so lambda-geda development is stalled.

In general, I think the tricky problem with all of these schemes is going to be to keep content separate from presentation. Schematics feed a variety of things downstream, and, for example, a circuit simulator is likely to be confused if you feed it presentation metadata embedded in simulation code.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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