Do attributes have to be unique within a symbol? Currently, gschem/gnetlist is a bit indifferent.
On the one hand: * gnetlist issues a warning if the same attribute is set to different values in many symbol components. * gnetlist seems to pick only the last value if an attribute is set more than once within a symbol * the gschem attribute editor shows only the last instance of an attributein a symbol. On the other hand: * The gschem attribute editor does not prevent adding a duplicate attribute to a symbol. * gnetlist does not warn if it hits the same attribute twice in a symbol. The master attribute list does not address this issue at all. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:master_attributes_list The use case that had me stumble on this is the comment attribute. From a usability point of view, it looks intuitive to have more than one comment. Of course, this might also be achieved by comment1, comment2, etc. IMHO, there should be a clearly stated policy in the master attribute list. Then the applications can deal with it accordingly. ---<)kaiamrtin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
