Re: gEDA: Overbars

[Carlos Nieves Ónega <cnieves_dot_mail-at-NOSPAMgmail_dot_com>]

El dom, 26-02-2006 a las 06:17 -0500, Bob Paddock escribió:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 03:01 am, Udi Finkelstein wrote:
> > It's been years since I've used it, but I vaguely recall that the old DOS
> > based OrCAD used backslashes (\) after any character you wanted to have an
> 
> > R/W
> > 
> > would be written as R/W\
> 
> In OrCAD 7 it would R/\W.
> 
> Any individual character preceded by the backslash gets an overbar.
> A backslash would be \\.
> 
> This avoids the conflicts with the underscore "_" character that is
> commonly used in names.  A well place underscore can make the
> difference between s_exchange and a sex_change.  Most people
> prefer one over the other. :-)

:-)

You made me remember the "OrCAD way". I hated it because it was soooo
unreadable when I wrote a whole word with the overbar on top...

I have just commited the changes into CVS. I used "\_" as the overbar
delimiter. Images are always better than words, so I attach a
screenshot.

PNG output works ok, but the Postscript output doesn't. I hope someone
could take a look at it. If I'm not wrong, the changes are needed in the
o_text_print function, in libgeda/noweb/o_text_basic.nw.

Regards,

Carlos

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