On Jan 26, 2008 2:09 PM, Dave N6NZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Luciani wrote: > > The examples are at > > http://www.luciani.org/not-quite-ready/not-quite-ready-index.html > > > They look very nice. Before I went there, I was skeptical of the value > of that sort of "apple polishing". (I tend to stop at slightly ugly but > functional.) But after seeing them I changed my mind. It really is > pleasing to see a schematic that looks like it came from a > professionally published magazine or a manufacturer's data sheet. > Symbols like that help gschem's perceived image.
Thanks. > The ARRL's symbol set would probably be popular: > http://www.arrl.org/qst/qs4hd.pdf > It's used in all ARRL publications and familiar to a lot of people. A > few symbols on the example sheet above are a little old fashioned, but > are pretty much deprecated in current ARRL pubs anyway. Thanks for the link. That single page summarizes a great basic library. That library combined with one of the *box symbol generators should satisfy most users. > > For my part, I was pickled in ANSI symbols decades ago, so pretty much > anything other than ANSI doesn't seem quite right to me :) I keep > doodling ideas for an ANSI symbol generator, but it never seems to be a > higher priority than just getting on with building stuff. Do you have any links to ANSI symbol specifications? As for style I was going for more of a textbook look --- like the "Art of Electronics". The same script could easily generate both ARRL style and textbook style symbols. (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
