Hello Mike,
I remember that problem from years ago (version 3.6 was retired
in April 2011). I don't think there was a workaround within xcircuit,
but you can always hand-edit the file. Find the text that you're
trying to fix, and change the justification, as described below.
Yes I was trying to avoid editing the PS file manually. But admittedly
that's one of the benefits of Xcircuit's approach and I've used it
extensively over the years. My need however is more that of interactively
changing justification on schematic text such that things line up
cleanly. So it looks like I should bite the bullet and upgrade or
build out of git. I just took a look and it appears the advertised
git repo only has tags for 3.8* but not prior versions. Might there be
a git tree which includes earlier releases or possibly active development
as well?
I update the git repository line on the webpage, but the git repositories
are still there. They only go back to the time I used cvs, and since
I didn't configure the cvs server on my most recent machine, those aren't
available. But xcircuit-3.7 is still available in git, it's just not
being maintained anymore.
However, ALL versions going back many years are available in tarball
format, and they all have the same filename structure (well, since 3.0,
but I don't think you're looking for anything older than that). So
you can do, for example,
wget http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/archive/xcircuit-3.6.105.tgz
How far do they go back? xcircuit-1.6.tar.gz, Jan 30, 1998. Wow,
I'm a pack rat.
Incidentally I don't know how often you and other contributors receive
kudo's for the creation, care & feeding of Xcircuit. But I've used it
since 1998 and haven't found anything which does the job for general
technical drawing and produces such quality output. So thanks again.
Thanks, that's very kind of you! :)
And, speaking of 1998. . .
---Tim
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