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[Vesa Solonen <vsolonen@...>]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Manveru wrote:

> It looks awesome! It remembers me schematics drawn in old electronics book from '70s and '80s
> manually chased for publication. Really high quality.

Thanks. The style of those books were my starting point. I've spent 
countless hours reading just them back in the day. The last one is Elektor 
Electronics "303 CIRCUITS" from 1989 :)

> The only question I have is about filled diode symbol - I was always learnt to draw diode unfilled on
> schematics - is it possible to put alternative diode symbol in the library? What puzzels me is that
> it could be under separate name, but I don't like approach to have "diode", "diodea", "diodeb" in the
> library if it is same element drawn as slightly different symbol. As far as I remeber KiCad allows
> only one alternative for symbol (used for ANSI/ISO logic gates).
>
> Any suggestions?

Maybe we'll play by the standard this time, but if the alt symbol is 
possible then just use it as well. After a while we end up with 
two libraries, good styled library and strict EN-60617 one :D

-Vesa