Re: gEDA: c8900a symbol comparison

[DJ Delorie <dj-at-NOSPAMdelorie_dot_com>]

> 	I've been reading the thread about this.  It wouldn't be hard
> to add the overbars to simple text, but the tricky part will be 1) the
> PS output and 2) handling all the different rotations and alignments.

If it were me, I'd pick some string prefix (like FOO vs /FOO) to mean
"inverted" and draw the overbar deep in the "print text here" routine.
Nobody else needs to know about it, and that's after all the alignment
and sizing routines.

I can help with the PS stuff.  Would a sample overbar demo be useful?

> >   http://www.delorie.com/pcb/size-compare.html
>
> 	All of the symbols are quite pretty, athough I like the middle
> one, even if it violates my (almost arbitrary) symbol creation rules. :)

Design rules are often arbitrary.  Consistency is its own goal in
cases like this, but perhaps the rules could be extended to include
exceptions like busses and multi-pin power?  The rest of it is pretty
close to the spec.

And I didn't see anything in the design specs about positions of
numbers and labels for vertical pins, anyway.