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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:49:20 -0500
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] ATXmega symbols
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On 01/20/2015 10:34 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> With my current project I finally got around to do digital hardware. A 
> micro controller will be used to switch states of an analog regulator. I 
> decided to go with the ATXmega series by Atmel. These processors had not 
> been included in the collection at gedasymbols.org, yet. 
> 
> Initially, I could not decide which specific model to use. So I made 
> symbols for all of them: 
> http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/kai_martin_knaak/symbols/digital/processors/
> 
> Symbols were made with a slightly modified version of djboxsym.pl . The 
> large vertical text is actually the value of the description attribute. 
> This attribute gets detached on instantiation of the symbol. So the string 
> can be changed on the fly as needed.

  Hey, speaking of vertical text, how did you get the text on the
top/bottom pin labels to be vertical?  Was that one of your
modifications to djboxsym?  I use djboxsym extensively here (200+
.symdef files) and would love to have vertical text for top/bottom pin
labels.

                -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA