Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Posting schematics...
Message-ID: <1988Apr2.233629.27043@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: schematics EDIF SPICE...
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1059@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <1332@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 88 23:36:29 GMT

The problem with the SPICE format is that a *picture* is precisely what
most people want, and constructing one from SPICE format is a lot of work.

I suspect that the thing to use is a simple line-drawing format, the
simpler the better, so that people can easily interface it to their own
particular (peculiar? ;-)) graphics output devices.  The weakness of all
the spiffy formats already in existence is that they are non-trivial to
interpret if you don't already have software that handles them.  The
thing to do is to think stupid, not spiffy.
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