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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:16:25 -0400
From: Joshua Lansford <Joshua DOT Lansford AT laserlinc DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gnetlist: allow net= attributes without a pin number
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2 more cents worth:
I also have schematics with power symbols with duplicate net names one 
visible and one functional.
Here is another suggestion which is pretty, functional and perhaps not 
hackish.
Allow the attribute to be switched around so that it is
net:1=GND
or
net:1=3.3V
Then when you hide the attribute name, the pin number is hidden too.  
And even if you don't hide the attribute name, the pin number doesn't 
distract from the net name.
~Joshua

On Wed 18 Jul 2012 08:50:15 AM EDT, Stefan Salewski wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 09:58 +0200, Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote:
>>
>> This has been discussed several times.
>> The consensus was that hacking this as a special case is frowned upon.
>>
>> References:
>> http://old.nabble.com/gEDA-user:-Attribute-Net-(without-pin-assignment)---for-Power-and-Port-Symbols-td31365921.html
>> http://old.nabble.com/gEDA-user%3A-gschem%3A-net-attribute-for-power-I-O,-clean-appearance--(no-“%3A1”)-tc31102453.html
>
>
> And my suggestion was that we simple do not print the ":1" in the
> schematic if the symbol has only one pin (and that pin is net 1).
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