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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I reported a bug earlier about the difficult user model of symbol aliases.

One of the biggest problems is that what is owned by a parent symbol and what is owned by an alias is not cleanly presented in the GUI.  A nice way to solve that would be to remove the Description/Keywords/DocFilename from the Symbol Settings dialog and have all Symbol Fields be owned by the alias.  (That way the Symbol Settings dialog maps 1:1 with the parent symbol, and the Symbol Fields dialog maps 1:1 with the alias.)

Will the new file format support generic alias fields?  (We also need this to support SPICE.  As I understand it you can’t currently have a model associated with an alias — which is troublesome as you’d like your 15V regulator to behave differently than your 5V regulator.)