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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

The pretty libraries are now under https://github.com/CarlPoirier

If I want to try them out directly from Github, after building KiCad with
the plugin, I set the correct environment variable for use in the libraries
dialog?

Sorry Dick, replied to you only at first, hence my second email.


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> It was not attached.
>
>
> That's weird. I see both the patch and the fp-lib-table in my previous
> email. Anyway, here they are again.
>
> The libraries will be on Github in not so long.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Finally, I have included the script to generate the pretty libs as well
>> as the column swap
>> > in the attached patch. As for the library table that gets saved
>> automatically in ~, what
>> > do we want to do with that? I have also attached it.
>>
>>
>> It was not attached.
>>
>> But to be honest, until it uses the github plugin, it is not particularly
>> valuable to the
>> common user.
>>
>> Your script is the valuable thing.
>>
>> Having a fp table that points to the github libs would be very useful.  A
>> crafty user can
>> create table fragments in a spreadsheet and copy them into the dialog.
>>
>> I wonder if fp table rows (in clipboard format) can be copied into an
>> email message, or
>> onto a webpage?  I suppose if the email client preserves tabs.
>>
>>
>> The clipboard format I use is below.  Spreadsheets seem to like this, and
>> seem to use it
>> in coming back from a spreadsheet back into the dialog, so its
>> bidirectional.
>>
>>
>> <col1><tab><col2><tab><col3> <tab> <col4> <0x0A>
>> <col1><tab><col2><tab><col3> <tab> <col4> <0x0A>
>> :
>>
>>
>> It would also be possible to parse s-expression when pasting from the
>> clipboard as well,
>> but I am not currently doing that.  A text editor could be used to paste
>> the s-expression
>> rows onto the clipboard.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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