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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne, would you rather I make this change and submit an updated monolithic patch (will take a few days), or would you rather I make a second patch on top of this one to be applied in a second commit?

JP, the horizontal grid is already flexible, but the autoplacer doesn't do vertical texts. How would that even work? It has to arrange them in a grid somehow. Texts are always placed horizontally with respect to the sheet.


On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 07:43:47PM +0100, jp charras wrote:
> Le 12/12/2015 18:26, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
> > I actually thought a bit about that, and wasn't sure how to reconcile 
> > "make the labels look nice" with "we like 50mil grids". But then, I went 
> > off-grid for horizontal _anyway_, so... *shrug*
> > 
> > It'll take some reworking of the placement code to make the vertical 
> > grid flexible - not something I'd probably bother doing on my own, but 
> > if other people want it, let me know and I'll have no problem 
> > implementing that.
> > 
> 
> The 50 mils grid is good (read: mandatory) to place pins.
> So "we like this grid" for connected items (pins, labels, wires ..)
> 
> But for graphics items a smaller grid is often needed.
> 
> Fields can be seen as graphics items.
> I am thinking a smaller grid like 10 mils could be used to place them.
> 
> (the horizontal grid should be also flexible, especially for vertical texts)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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