gEDA-user: gEDA Symbols

[Felipe Balbi]

Hello Dj,

> http://www.gedasymbols.org/scripts/search.cgi?key=atmel
there's already lots of ATMEL chips there... I'll modify one of them
to add my AT91SAM9261 and send to geda-symbol maintainers.


> > BTW, does anybody here know where are the code portion that reads the
> > .sym files and shows the symbol itself ?
>
> I have a sym2eps tool here: http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/
>
> There's a djboxsym there too, which is a symbol creation helper.
>
> > I'm wondering to develop something in this area, maybe some XML-like
> > file and a symbol creation program.. What do you guys think about it ?
>
> First, there's a bunch of existing symbol-maker helpers out there, so
> make sure you're not doing something that's already been done.
>
> Second, if it hasn't been done, don't let all those other helpers stop
> you from making another one.  It seems to be a competition to see how
> many different helpers we can come up with :-)
Actually I was thinking about gschem source code itself... where is
the code that it parses the  .sym files... where is the ".sym
language" defined... Maybe an XML-like file would be a lot easier to
understand. And, also, a lot easier to write part generators.

I'll check that on geda-dev list. ;-)


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Best Regards,

Felipe Balbi
felipebalbi at users.sourceforge.net