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On 10/26/2013 12:08 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Typically, you'd have a separate symbol that had *only* the two power
> pins, and the same refdes.  The netlister will merge those pins with
> the slotted pins when the schematic is exported.
>
That is exactly what I do.  It leads to cleaner schematics.  You can put 
the functional data flow on functional sheets, and infrastructure on 
infrastructure sheets, and neither clutters the other.  It makes 
schematics much more readable.

In these days of mixed voltages all over the place, having implicit 
power connections just leads to confusion and bugs.  Better to show it 
all explicitly, IMCO (In my curmudgeonly opinion).

-dave