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[Johannes Sprigode <jos@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy Wayne,

no worries. Thanks for the heads up. I'm not surprised at all since this
only makes sense to have.

In the meantime I'll keep it up if viable as a local patch just for
fun-kickers.

Is that feature already progressing? If so, which tag?

Cheers

Johannes

On 13/08/19 7:27 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Johannes,
>
> Once the new schematic and symbol library file formats are complete, you
> will be able orient pin number and name positions freely.  This is
> planned for version 6 which is currently under development so no changes
> will be made to the existing file format to support this.  Thank you for
> offering to help but this already is planned.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 7/15/19 7:18 AM, Johannes Sprigode wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> been using Kicad for a while and have not looked back at eagle except
>> for project imports.
>>
>> However, I found all those vertical texts  in eeschema quite disruptive.
>> So I've done something like in attached screen shot over the last couple
>> of days working off of master under Linux.
>>
>> Would you guys be interest to implement this sort of feature? If so, I
>> would follow through with the nitty gritties since the actual
>> implications are ‘slightly’ more complex then just that.
>>
>> Who would be the best contact to discuss this?
>>
>> I’m quite happy to lay out an implementation scenario.
>>
>> As it stands this ‘add-in’ will not impact on already existing
>> libraries. Going by what is in master there is no such feature except
>> some decent groundwork to build upon.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Johannes
>>
>>
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