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

I'll do it.

Where does the number 25 come from? If it's just a number off the top of
your head, I'll do some resolution tests and see what looks good for say a
minimum of 1280px width. (Netbooks will excuse me)


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:31:05AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> > a) *Nicknames*: revise the template/fp-lib-table file wrt nicknames:
> >   i) no longer than 25 characters
> >   ii) adopt a consistent choice of capitalization
>
> I think that's a good idea (altough it's more for the library people)...
> it's one little ugliness in the eeschema field, too. However I don't
> think that 25 should be an hard enforced limit, a guideline should be
> enough.
>
> > b) shorten the name of *Library Path* entries, this means renaming most
> footprint
> > libraries in the bzr repo to remove any reference to date or revision
> and to remove any
> > inclusion of part names.
>
> Same as above :D
>
> > c) add the previously existing references to part names which were in
> the library names,
> > into the "Description" column of the fp-lib-table if the author so
> desires.
>
> Also: do we really need so many fine-grained libraries, especially with the
> pretty format?
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
> Logos Srl
>
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