On May 13, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 06:39 -0700, Yanivh. wrote: >> I have followed gEDA/gaf Symbol Creation Documents. >> After saving the new symbol, when I wish to place it >> in gschem, it is placed with the whole title-B area. >> What did I missed? > > When you're creating a symbol, you need to delete the title block > before > you "symbol translate" and save. > > See the recent geda-user thread: "Removing default title box". > > > (Ok guys, I can grant that "New->Symbol" might be a case where we > don't > want to include a title block). > > At the risk of taking this thread off-topic, what about this.. > "/usr/share/gEDA/default_page.sch" (and the various local overrides).
I like that a lot. Solves several problems with the current approach: the default may differ between projects, and the current code doesn't promote attributes. > > Make gschem File->New load that. It is more discoverable, as we could > include a menu item "Page->Edit Default page" or some such. But that gets you back to the same problem we have with symbols: when you customize anything from the standard installation, you should be working on a project-local copy, not the installation's copy. > This is a > step away from a free-selection of templates, but given gschem doesn't > treat title-blocks specially (they are just symbols), template > schematic > files are probably the best way to implement this. > > 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-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
