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> Then you're talking about a *drastic* change to geda-gaf, or a new
> schematic toolkit entirely.

Why?  Just because we have no way of figuring out which symbol is which?

> But I don't see why a symbolic pin cannot have a number to identify
> it: it need not have anything to do with the physical pin.

I doctored those symbols to have symbolic pins, but if you instantiate
two deafult 7400.sym's you get pin numbers - but they both have pins
1,2,3, so no help there.