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Seriously? You put an Omega at the end of a value for a resistance and
people know what that means. Ditto for the mu before a capital F. Why
would anyone put an SI unit for distance on an symbol in gschem? I
have put max. distance values on some nets to remind myself not to
make some signal paths too long but for that I usually use a comment=
which the netlister strips off. I would prefer that there be a
trace_length_max= or some such flag in gschem but it does not make any
sense to add it until...
1. There is a C coded tool to bridge the meta data issue to PCB
2. There is a mechanism in PCB to use said information.
Be we have already had this discussion.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:31 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Evan Foss wrote:
>
>> Oh when I used Omega on resistors the old ones would fail. SDB might
>> have fixed it but there was some reason that I can not remember for
>> not using it.
>
> How should "mΩ" be translated? What about "MΩ"? Should "m" by itself represent "meter" (SI) or "0.001" (SPICE). Is there a simple, comprehensible rule to distinguish SI unit designations needing translation from strings that might resemble them but shouldn't be translated?
>
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
>
>
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