X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:30:15 -0500 (CDT) From: mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca X-X-Sender: mskala AT localhost DOT localdomain To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: [geda-user] Silkscreened component values, mailing list, and gEDA development Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com First, is it possible to design a footprint in such a way that the component value will appear in the silkscreen, in addition to or instead of the refdes value? I'm hoping for something more automated than just manually adding notes to the silkscreen layer. Second, is there a way to search the archive of this mailing list going back more than a week into the past? The search function on the archive page seems to be limited to that, which makes it hard to find previous answers to questions that have likely been asked before. Finally, are there any plans for the diode schematic symbols and footprints to ever agree with each other about which pin is the cathode? I have found bug reports about this dating at least as far back as May 2005, but nothing seems to have been done about it in nine years. If I will be required to triple check every symbol and footprint and define my own a large fraction of the time because there's a significant chance of the default ones being as catastrophically broken as diodes are, then that may be a dealbreaking issue and is at least something I'd like to know about before I invest any more time in gEDA. -- Matthew Skala mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/