Guys - On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:22:52AM -0700, Chris Albertson wrote: > On 10/15/07, Greg Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:10 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > > On Monday 15 October 2007 17:27:43 Chris Albertson wrote: > > > > Gschem's primary purpose is schematic capture. If what you want is > > > > publication quality schematic drawings use XCircuit. > > > > http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/. > > > > > > I'm afraid that this is just not true. It's entirely possible to > > > produce "publication quality" (whatever that is) diagrams in gschem, and > > > indeed I have done so, for reports etc. I admit that it is hard [chop] > > > I've also done some electrical diagrams for reports using Inkscape, > > > which worked surprisingly well. > > ... > > I think Chris's angle is the font/symbol line 'quality' (can't think of > > a better term) A good parallell is computer generated music scores. > > Most MS free/cheap packages produce a technically correct score that is > > awful for a musician to read. Lilypond OTOH, produces a score that is > > *much* easier for a musician to read. It emulates the 19th century > > score engraving craftmanship where score 'readability' reached it's > > pinnacle. > > Much depends on your critiera for "quality". For example many people > are happy with the typesetting abilities of basic work processors like > Microsoft Word. But if you compare side by side to Don, Knuth's "tex" > there are differences. > > There is a difference between how you draw on a computer screen > for schematic capture and how you should draw for publication in > print. I think it would be great if you could enter the schematic just > once and have the netlist converted for quality output just like you > can have it convertert for Spaic and PCB. Many you might have an > attribute "Postscript Symbol" These symbols can do intelegent functions > like allow fonts to be globally changed and test remain upright even if the > symbol is rotated.
Speaking as someone who uses TeX and Lilypond, let me cycle back to the beginning of the thread: XCircuit not only makes high visual quality publication-ready schematics, it also exports PCB-compatible netlists. So for simple circuits where quality documentation matters, it makes a lot of sense, and you _do_ only have to enter the schematic once. OTOH, cajoling xcircuit to do real repeat blocks, BOMs, and other engineering nitty-gritty is not fun. Possible [http://recycle.lbl.gov/llrf4] for a programmer, but not something I'd reccommend to a novice. - Larry _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
