Mark Rages wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> John Luciani wrote: >>> For simple modifications I would use EMACS. >>> The file format is very simple. Should be quite >>> easy to find the string 74141 ;-) >>> >> Ok, yes, with any kind of ASCII editor I could "wing it", I was just >> hoping there was a more elegant way. But maybe not. Personally I don't >> think it's good to hard-embed such text in part symbols but that's just >> my two cents. > > I've done several medium-size boards with gschem and I've had to use a > text editor for each one. I suggest you open the file in the editor > and look at the file format docs. (It's a very simple format, > actually). > > I just finished a pair of boards at 5:00 this morning (am I the only > one who can only concentrate on layout work when I'm dead tired?) For > the schematic capture part, I was bouncing between: > > - gchem > - emacs > - gattrib (spreadsheet-like attribute editor) > - shell (eg: 'grep refdes= filename.sch | sort | uniq -d' for a list > of duplicated reference designators) > > Once you learn how the parts fit together, the process works pretty > well. If it's any comfort, gschem is user-interface heaven compared > to pcb, the layout tool. >
Whew. That is actually comforting because I do not do layouts, they are contracted out. So I'll probably use PCB Designer only to help others, like if someone in a newsgroup such as this one wants a 2nd opinion on some unorthodox part in a layout. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
