Re: gEDA: [blarson@blars.org: Bug#163584: geda-gschem: need gener ic transistors, component scale, lable orientation]

[Wojciech Kazubski <wk-at-NOSPAMire_dot_pw_dot_edu_dot_pl>]

Hi all!

> > Our mission is to make gschem symbols IEEE compliant in format and
> > scale (in mils). The ideal is to make the symbol 1,5 times bigger than
> > the original spec. So, a part with 200 mils height, should have 300
> > mils in the gschem part to have a good look. That's a problem, that
> > we really don't know how to solve. Or design with the correct scale
> > and modify gschem code to display correctly, or design the parts
> > out of scale...

For me, the current components are too big and "circuit density" on the 
drawings is very low (--> many sheets to print).
Now the docs state that pins should be 400mils spaced but many components have 
pin spacing of 300mils. Other EDA programs (as Orcad or Protel) allow for 
100mils spacing of pins and you can draw much more on each sheet.

I think that completly new set of symbols should be started with 100mils (or 
200max) pin spacing.
Smaller symbols need some changes of some in rc files, and possibly more 
accurate control of line width (now only "thin" and "thick") and the text 
size (now the size can be changed with two point resolution).

W. Kazubski