Hi folks, Ralph and Alejandro were added to the list. In the following days, I will work toward completing the library convention and think about an organized way of refactoring the libraries.
>From now on, let us stop cluttering up the developer's mailing list with library stuff. Thanks for all your precious inputs here. Regards, Carl On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Ralph Stirling < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Carl, > > I would like to contribute to the library effort after school gets > out in June. We have a large Mentor Graphics Boardstation library > that I plan on porting to Kicad or simply recreating in Kicad, and > have some ideas for integrating Digikey catalog searching with > Kicad part number identification that I'd like to work on this summer. > Whether you want me on the library-committers list yet is up to you. > I would like to be on the library users and/or developers list if that > would > be possible. > > Thanks, > -- Ralph > > Ralph Stirling > Project Engineer > Walla Walla University > School of Engineering > 100 SW 4th St > College Place, WA 99324 > [email protected] > http://engr.wallawalla.edu/engr480 > ________________________________________ > From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+ralph.stirling= > [email protected]] on behalf of Carl Poirier [ > [email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 2:15 PM > To: Kicad Developers > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Library Convention > > I did an initial push of our library convention here< > https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/blob/master/KiCad_Library_Convention.txt > >. > > Thanks to everyone for the constructive comments and great help, > especially Jean-Paul Louis, Lorenzo Marcantonio, Vesa Solonen, Wayne > Stambaugh, JP Charras and Cirilo Bernardo. > > It's only the beginning, though, so we'll for sure have some other things > to discuss! > > Most importantly, we will now have to refactor a good chunk of our > libraries. I know some of you wanted to help; I will get back to you on > that, using the lib-committers mailing list. Is anyone who wants to give a > hand not subscribed to it? I know there is Alenjandro Méndez. I will add > you shortly. > > Regards, > > Carl > > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio < > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 03:07:00PM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote: > > once we're ready. Since the ISO charset is a little more compact than the > > current font, I don't see how waiting a bit would cause problems if > > updating symbols in existing schematics. > > Shouldn't change a thing, actually:P the only warning maybe is to stay > clear of the backspace character (and maybe the underline) since I use > the first for escaping the TechSet 1 characters (they actually all have > an unicode point but it's a pain to find/type them... ) and the second > to toggle subscript mode. > > Also I think that pulling out the font data in a file would be the best > choice (so the user can use the preferred one); I'd stick that at > a project level (not an user option since it changes the design) > > (BTW compactness helps labeling terminal blocks on the silk screen :D) > -- > Lorenzo Marcantonio > Logos Srl > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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