John Doty wrote: > Folks, > > It seems to me that a missing feature of the gschem library mechanism > is a simple way for users to learn what each library is for. I guess > many users won't know what "IEC 60417" or "SWITCAP" are about without > some research. And even when the library refers to some > manufacturer's line, it may not be obvious where to look for further > documentation. What you find at www.maxim.com is carbon-based, not > silicon ;-)
Agreed. Symbols from the switcap library are only useful for driving the switcap simulator and nothing else but I doubt many folks realize that. For the record, www.maxim-ic.com is what you want but I know thats not your point. > It seems to me that it would be handy to have a "Documentation" > button on the component selector panel. With a library selected, it > could bring up "README.html" from the library in a browser. With a > component selected, it could bring up the documentation= info from > the symbol file. > > I think HTML is particularly appropriate here because I think the > library documentation will generally contain references to additional > external documents. Perhaps each library should have a short, "Switcap simulator primitives" "Maxim Integrated Products integrated circuits" "Mathematica backend primitives", description that could be displayed in the component selector dialog. Then your "documentation" button would give you a longer description. Certainly some format that allows links would be good. I've had mild success with using xml in a case where I wanted to be able to produce html, preformatted text, nroff, etc versions all from the same sources. But thats a detail. -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
