On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:10 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Monday 15 October 2007 17:27:43 Chris Albertson wrote: > > Gschem's primary purpose is schematic capture. If what you want is > > publication quality schematic drawings use XCircuit. > > http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/. > > I'm afraid that this is just not true. It's entirely possible to > produce "publication quality" (whatever that is) diagrams in gschem, and > indeed I have done so, for reports etc. I admit that it is hard to do so > using the standard symbol library -- but I have a separate library I drew for > the purpose. > > I've also done some electrical diagrams for reports using Inkscape, which > worked surprisingly well. > > Peter ... I think Chris's angle is the font/symbol line 'quality' (can't think of a better term) A good parallell is computer generated music scores. Most MS free/cheap packages produce a technically correct score that is awful for a musician to read. Lilypond OTOH, produces a score that is *much* easier for a musician to read. It emulates the 19th century score engraving craftmanship where score 'readability' reached it's pinnacle.
I suggest that symbols can be made a lot prettier at the cost of complexity. eg, an arrowhead consisting of 3 lines is 'draft quality', but When I did engineering drawing in high school, a dimensional arrowhead was a carefully constructed wedge - edges were subtle curves & not straight lines. my 2x bob -- Greg _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
