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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Another sym style
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Date: Mon,  2 Jul 2012 14:36:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: karl AT aspodata DOT se (Karl Hammar)
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Stefan Salewski:
> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 10:59 +0200, Karl Hammar wrote:
> > I got bored with all thoose rectangular symbols, wasn't it nicer in 
> > the analog era with all kinds of shapes ?
...
> > http://turkos.aspodata.se/tmp/geda/st32f100c.sym
...
> Indeed I was thinking about some more interesting symbol shapes other
> than plain rectangles, maybe rounded corners.

Maybe a cutout corner for marking the no.1 position is good enough.

> But I have no idea for what your circular symbol may be good, sorry.
> The hot pin ends are not on the 100 grid points -- does this work fine
> with latest gschem? At least in the past it was advertised that active
> pin ends rest on 100 multiples -- of course tools should be able to
> accept arbitrary pin position, if we really want that.

I think this symbol has no practical value whatsoever, except maybe for
testing the pin placement function. I wanted to be able to place the 
pin in some direction and the label and other attributes should follow 
suit.
 Also, with MCU's there are alternate functions, and I wanted to have 
them shown in the symbol but not to take so much space; neither 
tragesym nor djboxsym allowed me to do that.

> If you are interested in shapes and appearance -- what do you think
> about my recent GUI layout of my Ruby gschem clone? I have moved the log
> window to the bottom, and I am now using notebook tabs with a close
> button and a checkmark, which later can be used to switch to an
> attribute view like gattrib shows.

I've looked at it in the past, but maybe it's time to take a  new look.
Is it usable as is, or do you simply want input?

///

Regarding shapes and appearance, maybe the symbol circumference
should be drawn with a thicker line to make it easier to differentiate 
from net lines in a black and white printout.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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