Maybe nesting the light component inside a heavy one is the solution?
Something like 

C 42300 41300 1 0 0 7400-1.sym
{
C 44100 44900 1 0 0 nand-1.sym
T 44100 44900
device=74HC00
T 44100 44800
footprint=DIL14
...
}


>
>       The one thing that bothers me about your abstract-symbols
> mechanism (yes I did try it a while ago) is that the end user has to
> instanciate two symbols instead of just one.  From the example from the
> referenced post:
>
> ...
> C 44100 44900 1 0 0 nand-1.sym
> ...
>
> and
>
> ...
> C 42300 41300 1 0 0 7400-slots.sym
> ...
>
>
>       That seems odd and I would have a hard time explaining that to
> end users.  I like the idea of a "nand-1.sym" (yeah!), but I don't like
> the idea that you also have place a 7400-slots.sym.   My approach will
> only require one instanciated component (nand-1.sym) which is "modified"
> (exactly how is what I'm currently working on) with the additional
> netlisting specific information.
>
>                                                               -Ales
>
>
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Wojciech Kazubski


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