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From: padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell[Admin])
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Suggested extension to CIF for text.
Message-ID: <94@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 08:54:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: wateng.94
Posted: Mon Jun 20 08:54:42 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jun-83 02:29:27 EDT
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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I posted the "cifstr" announcement the other day.  I received several
questions about an automatic extension to CIF.  I suggest the following:
User Code 8: text
8 [-s scale] [-o x,y] [-l layer] "string" ;

-s scale	scale the 16(vertical) by 8(hor) characters.
-o x,y		origin of string to be x,y
-l layer	set layer
"string"	alphanumeric string to be drawn.

If you use this convention, I have a handy little program called cifstrip
that will expand and replace all the stuff.  It also breaks things down,
recenters symbols, and generally massages CIF into a form so loved by
Queens VLSIIC.  A notice will be posted when source is available.

Patrick Powell, U. Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.