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Subject: Re: [geda-user] yet another footprint generator
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Igor2:
> lately there was some activity on collecting footprint generators, so I'd 
> add mine to the list. It's part of a bigger happening in pcb-rnd:
>   - cleaning up newlib
>   - replacing the m4 footprint generator with a language-neutral mechanism

What are your ideas about "replacing m4" ?

Mine is directly in perl, so I can use all sorts of programming 
constructs to generate mult. footprints, and e.g. keep track of bounding
box around all pins/pads. And I think it's easier to use a prog.lang.
than to define a new syntax just for the fp. generator. If I need 
something new, eg. a silk cross, I just make a function for it and it 
is readily available, I don't have to write a parser too.
Any thoughts ?

> svn://repo.hu/pcb-rnd/trunk/pcblib-param

I see you also have an element_begin and element_end, though mine is
called element_start and element_stop; I also have a element_pin func.,
seems we have somewhat similar thought about the generator.

...
> http://igor2.repo.hu/cgi-bin/pcblib-param.cgi

(Your preview is missing the little diamond, for the origo, though I 
realize that it is redunant; just used to see it.)

Isn't silkmark = square or angled difficult to read when the connector 
is mounted ?

Hmm, looking through my own footprints I see that I mostly only use a
quare pin as a marker. Does it help to have it in the silk also ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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