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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 23:49:34 -0400
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On 14-04-11 09:35 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Also, do not end your refdes with a lower case letter.  PCB ignores those.

Bingo!!  That was the problem --- I just changed the name
Qmult to Q3, and the thing works like a charm now!!  Thanks
for that tip!!

I would, however, claim that this actually is a "bug" (we could
call it a "misfeature") in the functionality!

If you're one of the developers  (or in any case, for the
developers who are reading this), you should do something
about it --- if using lowercase is not acceptable, fine;  but the
software is silently not doing anything and reporting error
messages that pins are missing and nets are shorted when
the cause is that a refdes contains lowercase letters.

Actually, scratch that --- if anything, my suggestion / feature-
request would be that lowercase letters should be acceptable;
I mean, they sort of give a subscript/subindex look to the
symbol name, which can be good.  Ideally, if one could use
subscript and have the thing *really* show as a subscript
(a la LaTeX), that would be fantastic.  For the PCB silk, though,
it may be a problem --- letters too small (or in any case lines
too thin for the characters) may be rejected by manufacturers.
But still --- at least for the schematic and maybe as markers
in PCB Designer (even if they don't show like that in the silk),
symbols with subscripts would be *great*, I think.

Putting all that aside --- again, thank you for helping me figure
out the problem!!

Cheers,
Carlos
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