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> To my way of thinking, it you do "annotation of *any* type" back to
> the schematic, you need to keep it small, say 6 or 8 pins, then
> rehook it up with some loose guideline like ratlines, or it gets to
> be too much.

Why does everyone think that pin swapping requires changing the
geometry of a schematic?  All we're doing is changing the pinnumber=
attribute on existing symbols.