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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Symbol attributes
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 06:13:08PM -0700, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
> Kai,
> Thanks for your response to my thread.  See my responses below.
> 
> Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> >If I want to attach some text that can be edited in the schametic
> >but does not have a special meaning for any other tool, I
> >introduce a visible symbol "component-label=".
> >
> That is just about what I am doing now, but I am calling it
> "symname=", for Symbolic Name.

Whichever you use doesn't matter, however I like to have "label"
in the name to indicate that it is merely designed to be displayed
and not used for any other purpose.

The most annoying issue is that, being an attribute, it is displayed
in a different color than the text associated with symbols which played
a similar role in the standard library. I don't think it is right now
possible to modify the colour depending on regexp matching on the attribute
name; otherwise it would be nice if attribute name matching ".*label.*"
would use text color (automatically atattribute promotion time).   

> >Do you find gsymcheck actually useful? 

No.

	Regards,
	Gabriel