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[Vesa Solonen <vsolonen@...>]

What's the policy for official libraries? I'd like to enhance them a bit 
and also would like to know wether we can agree on 'official' library 
style. The style part is probably the most difficult task and my ultimate 
goal is to look after possibilities to make dynamically styled schematic 
library. I think one of the finest examples is ATMEGA8 symbol, but the 
whole library lacks coherency.

For some examples please look at:
http://users.tkk.fi/~vsolonen/kicad/

How to get dynamic styling? Some ideas will be found in 
Symbol_guidelines.txt document and the real implementation would need 
adding style tag to the library graphic primitives and support to the 
parser. I think the better way of getting there is devising SVG import 
system for symbols and just leaving the pin object definitions to kicad 
library editor. That way complex gui etc for graphics manipulation would 
be external to Kicad (Any good svg editor, like Inkscape). Full blown 
internal svg-support might be too heavy with very complex schematics, 
would it? At least it would be a whole lot of work.

I might try writing an svg importer in python some time...

SVG import would be really fine way for adding custom logos to layouts.

-Vesa