X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Authenticated-IP: 207.224.51.38 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Subject: Re: [geda-user] Symbol attributes From: John Doty In-Reply-To: <50084839.9080804@sbcglobal.net> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:05:48 -0600 Message-Id: References: <50084839 DOT 9080804 AT sbcglobal DOT net> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q6JK5vaM022662 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Jul 19, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: > My question is, what determines an attribute as basic (schematic-editable) or "Inherited" (not schematic-editable)? > Or, more to the point: How do I set the editability of an attribute in an instantiated symbol? You're talking about "attribute promotion". An attribute in the symbol may be "promoted" to an attribute attached to a specific instance of the the symbol in the schematic. That's how attributes become editable. You can manually promote an attribute by right-clicking on it in the attributes menu. Or you may simply attach an attribute to a symbol with a name identical to an unpromoted attribute. There are arcane rules for automatically deciding which attributes are to be promoted. I usually turn as much of that off as possible by the use of a line like: (always-promote-attributes '("refdes")) This makes wholesale changes of attributes by editing symbols more predictable and useful. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com