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On Jul 13, 2015, at 8:09 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> 
>> Not at all. At the top level of a complicated board you get an
>> incomprehensible wad of lines if you try to diagram it. A table can
>> be much more useful.
> 
> Why do people insist on telling me I'm wrong about how *I* do *my*
> tasks?  I'm not an idiot and I've done this before.  I don't want a
> table of connections.

If the wad of lines is too dense to follow without confusion, what good is it?

>  I want something that tells me how the board
> functions, because I'm not the original designer.

Of course. But from the point of view of how the board functions, it really doesn’t matter whether output B-4 is on connector pin 156 or 56. But, you may want to probe it with your scope. For me, it’s a whole lot easier to figure that out from a table than from tracing a line on a dense schematic.

> 
>> But why complicate the tool, when the toolkit approach solves this
>> without the complication?
> 
> Because not everyone wants to do things your way.

You’re pushing graphics, but then you want tables in gschem, a graphics tool. Make up your mind.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com