There’s a bug[1] that complains that the user can’t reposition a reference or 
value differently for different units that might be different sizes.  (You can 
do this on the eeschema canvas, but not in the library, so you have to do it 
each time you use one of the units.)

It occurred to me that one could accomplish this using existing stuff if we had 
a (very simple) evaluator for text fields at runtime.  They could then add a 
text field to their units (marked shared-between-units or not as required), and 
set the value to something like “%REF” or “%VALUE”.  The expression evaluator 
could even be as simple as doing those two replacements, or maybe looking up 
any field value or something.

Anyway, I’m not sure this issue warrants it, but if it had other uses it might 
be worth doing (whereas adding separate REF and VALUE fields per unit and 
giving them shared-between-units flags, etc., would be more work than this bug 
probably warrants).

Thoughts?

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1334502
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