On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 10:40 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote: > > > It looks like most, if not all, overbar lines are now removed (with > > > 99.99 % certainty, Gauss and most mathematicians would be satisfied).
Thank you for doing all that hard work Bert! This effort not only improves the quality of the symbols we have, but means that rendering their text with pango (and suitable extra code to paint the over-bars), will not break their layout. > Now it's up to the Pango guys to make this feature of 1.6.0 happen :) The pango developers have been very helpful so far, and have tolerated my "noob" level understanding of their library. Since the rest of the cairo rendering improvements have landed / will land for 1.6.0 (which was originally uncertain), there is a much greater chance that the pango font rendering lands. > Thanks for the cooperation so far, looking forward for a new challenge > on my levels. If you're not sick to death of symbols, there are some other cases which we have that look bad. A lot of symbols which attempt to align arc segments and lines (logic gates, for example) look pretty poor due to bad alignment of the various pieces. There are a couple of possible ways forwards: 1. Fix alignment of existing lines and arcs. 2. Create closed paths for shapes which should be closed. Since there is no GUI for creating closed paths, this is best done with a text editor, or some "template" paths which you can paste in. Now that our symbols are rid of overbar lines, it will be much easier to identify symbols which use lines as part of their drawings. Granted, a lot of those will not be outlines, however with some suitable heuristics, it may be possible to chase out likely candidates for symbols which could make use of paths. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list geda-dev@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev