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

Hi folks,

Ralph and Alejandro were added to the list. In the following days, I will
work toward completing the library convention and think about an organized
way of refactoring the libraries.

>From now on, let us stop cluttering up the developer's mailing list with
library stuff. Thanks for all your precious inputs here.

Regards,

Carl


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Ralph Stirling <
Ralph.Stirling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Carl,
>
> I would like to contribute to the library effort after school gets
> out in June.  We have a large Mentor Graphics Boardstation library
> that I plan on porting to Kicad or simply recreating in Kicad, and
> have some ideas for integrating Digikey catalog searching with
> Kicad part number identification that I'd like to work on this summer.
> Whether you want me on the library-committers list yet is up to you.
> I would like to be on the library users and/or developers list if that
> would
> be possible.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Ralph
>
> Ralph Stirling
> Project Engineer
> Walla Walla University
> School of Engineering
> 100 SW 4th St
> College Place, WA 99324
> stirra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://engr.wallawalla.edu/engr480
> ________________________________________
> From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+ralph.stirling=
> wallawalla.edu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Carl Poirier [
> carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 2:15 PM
> To: Kicad Developers
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Library Convention
>
> I did an initial push of our library convention here<
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/blob/master/KiCad_Library_Convention.txt
> >.
>
> Thanks to everyone for the constructive comments and great help,
> especially Jean-Paul Louis, Lorenzo Marcantonio, Vesa Solonen, Wayne
> Stambaugh, JP Charras and Cirilo Bernardo.
>
> It's only the beginning, though, so we'll for sure have some other things
> to discuss!
>
> Most importantly, we will now have to refactor a good chunk of our
> libraries. I know some of you wanted to help; I will get back to you on
> that, using the lib-committers mailing list. Is anyone who wants to give a
> hand not subscribed to it? I know there is Alenjandro Méndez. I will add
> you shortly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carl
>
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
> l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 03:07:00PM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote:
> > once we're ready. Since the ISO charset is a little more compact than the
> > current font, I don't see how waiting a bit would cause problems if
> > updating symbols in existing schematics.
>
> Shouldn't change a thing, actually:P the only warning maybe is to stay
> clear of the backspace character (and maybe the underline) since I use
> the first for escaping the TechSet 1 characters (they actually all have
> an unicode point but it's a pain to find/type them... ) and the second
> to toggle subscript mode.
>
> Also I think that pulling out the font data in a file would be the best
> choice (so the user can use the preferred one); I'd stick that at
> a project level (not an user option since it changes the design)
>
> (BTW compactness helps labeling terminal blocks on the silk screen :D)
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
> Logos Srl
>
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