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On 13/09/17 13:10, Roland Lutz wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Stephan Böttcher wrote:
>> If you want to tell gschem where and how to draw the pin numbers next 
>> to the pins, you'll need the pinnumber= attributes.
> 
> You're right, I didn't think about that.
> 
> It still seems kind of wrong to include an attribute with a value which 
> will be ignored, just so it can be replaced with the actual attribute…

Yes.
I tested putting pinnumber=_ in the symbol rather than numbers, this 
allowed the '_'s to be positioned in the symbol as placeholders for the 
pin numbers and on placing the symbol in a schematic they were initially 
transformed into the pin numbers for slot 1.
I quite like that as a workaround. :)

Cheers,
Barry