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From: cfk (cfk AT pacbell DOT net) Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 11:02:43 EDT
These days I find very few hints about using magic that I grok. Along those lines, I thought it might be interesting to share a few incantations of box in hopes it will help someone else understand some of magic's commands and lead to a few others posting some of their own incantations that will allow all of us to understand a bit more how to manipulate this wonderful software package. With that preface, try starting magic with 'magic -w', next, try prefacing all commands with ';' instead of ':'. The reason for the ';' is that it is 1) unshifted, 2) the same button as ':', 3) a command delimiter and 4) a trick I was able to show Tim. magic -w ;tech load SCN5M_DEEP.12.TSMC Now we have a lambda of 0.12 (120 nanometers) with the 0.25 micron technology of TSMC, zoom out a bit and set the grid to 10 10 ;<shift-Z> ;grid 10 10 Now, make a 5000nm wide by 500nm high box (nm, hmmmm) ;box size 5000nm 500nm Manipulate the box size from the keyboard in microns instead of nanometers ;box width 8um ;box grow north 100nm ;box grow east 350nm ;box shrink east 250nm ;box move sw 1000nm ;box values 0 0 6000nm 3um ;box position returns its lower left corner All of these variations and more are described in magic/commands/CmdAB.c round about line 484. I didnt know I could manipulate the box in metric dimensions instead of just lambda until found it very interesting. Now perhaps someone else might consider adding a few incantations along with maybe a link or two to a URL with magic command files and we can have an interesting weekend looking forward to all learning a few new tricks. Charles
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