X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 13:45:29 -0500 (CDT) From: mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca X-X-Sender: mskala AT localhost DOT localdomain To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] Chinese glyph rendering in pcb as symbols In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <201409051618 DOT s85GIdb8024685 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <5409F1C2 DOT 3090406 AT xs4all DOT nl> <201409051752 DOT s85Hqnr2027362 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20140905184829 DOT GH3196 AT cicely7 DOT cicely DOT de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Jason White wrote: > > I consider this impractical if you regulary switch between text editor > > and PCB. > > And it completely breaks revision control systems without having a > > specific ZIP plugin. > > I'm curious if that is a very common use case among gEDA users? > I certainly spend a lot more time in the tool than the text editor. I use revision control on PCB files and a non-text format would probably be a dealbreaker for me. ZIP is *not* an adequate substitute; a directory would be marginally usable. But UTF-8 text would be just fine. I don't think embedding gigantic binary fonts is a good idea. Store the name of the font, store the text in UTF-8, ship some standard fonts, and if someone wants to use a non-standard font, then they are responsible for seeing that it is installed on the systems where they will use the files. That's what word processors do, and it works. -- Matthew Skala mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/