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On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 14:48 -0700, Dave Curtis wrote:

> it's good.  There is one place where the text length is critical to 
> getting text centered correctly, but again, my magic number seems close 
> enough for now.
> 
> I wish I understood why the magic number that I found works, but I'll 
> leave that mystery for now, and try to wrap up a couple of other more 
> pressing issues so that my symbol generator is ready for a public push.
> 
> -dave
> 

You may note that gschem already supports centered text, see

http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:file_format_spec#text_and_attributes

If gschem's centering is not perfect, it may be better to fix gschem.
Indeed, gschem uses cairo, and I think cairo supports centered text, so
all should be fine. The problem may be Peter C.'s compatibility hacks --
I have never understood why we need that. And my personal opinion to
text size: I like user selected fonts, shape and size -- of course size
has an upper boundary by available space.