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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Moving this to a new thread.

> On 8/2/2016 7:16 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > My implementation had a large number of symbols, would have allowed
> > user-supplied arbitrary symbols if I had finished it, and automatically
> > selected a symbol based on net name _exactly_ as Clemens suggested. All
> > of these issues are solved.
> 
> How difficult would it be to apply the same selection criteria for power
> symbols?  The more you explain what you have done with power label the
> more it seems like you could have done the same thing with power
> symbols.  This would save implementing a new object and the file
> formatting to support it.  Maybe I'm missing something here but I just
> don't see how a new label type that looks like a power symbol is
> different from a power symbol that already provides the same functionality.

It provides the same functionality. I just think it's more consistent
from the user's perspective - see my comment earlier about them /being/
labels, functionally speaking - and not that much more trouble to
implement.