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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:48:08 -0700
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Gabriel Paubert wrote:
8><...
> 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).   
>
>   
Gabriel,
The attribute color is easily changed.  Select the attribute text and 
use ex to bring up the text format window.  There is a listbox where you 
can change the color as well as size and orientation.  However, the big 
question is if there are any utilities that require a specific color.  I 
have not run into any, but I haven't much experience beyond gschem.  In 
this case, since this attribute is only used within the schematic symbol 
and we users have created it, there shouldn't be any other utilities 
that even know about it.
The gEDA/gaf Symbol Creation Document
http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gschem_symbol_creation
Does specify certain colors for certain attributes, but I think this is 
just a guideline/convention, not a hard and fast rule.  The document 
uses the term "should" be, not "shall" be, for attribute colors.

Hope this helps.
Girvin