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[Augusto Fraga Giachero <augustofg96@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've been designing schematics with some stm32 parts using the standard 
Kicad libraries, and a lot of these microcontrollers has 10+ functions 
multiplexed in each I/O pin. In the standard library the symbols 
displays all possible configurations available to each pin, I understand 
the motivation of this choice (not having to refer to the datasheet 
every time you want choose an I/O for some specific functionality), but 
this results in very large symbols occupying the page.

I've come with a idea (which probably isn't new) to deal with this problem:
* You can select what functions you will use from a list for each pin 
and only that will be displayed in the schematic;
* You can then resize the symbol accordingly directly in the schematic;
* While this wouldn't require any modification to the library symbol 
file format as the description string of each pin already carries all 
the necessary information, the .sch file format would probably be 
changed and would not have backwards compatibility.

This may not be easy to implement as with the way eeschema handles 
symbols today and the issues I've cited above, I would like hear about 
your suggestions.

Thanks,
Augusto Fraga Giachero.