---
name: "tragesym"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "geda-utils"
version: "1:1.8.2-11"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tragesym"
---

# tragesym(1)

create gEDA symbols from structured textfiles

## NAME

tragesym - create gEDA symbols from structured textfiles

## SYNOPSIS

**tragesym** *sourcefile symbolfile*

## DESCRIPTION

**tragesym** creates gschem symbols from structured textfiles.

**tragesym** can:

- •

  create pins and arrange their elements (clocksign, dot, type, pinnumber, label);

- •

  sort pins alphabetical and numerical;

- •

  swap words of pinlabels if wished;

- •

  draw negation lines on the labels (since version 0.0.9, gschem will do that);

- •

  rotate pinlabels if wished;

- •

  do some syntax check to the input file.

**tragesym** requires python.

## TUTORIAL

There is a tutorial on the use of **tragesym** at:

-

  http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:tragesym\_tutorial

## AUTHOR

Werner Hoch \<werner.ho@gmx.de\>

## SEE ALSO

[**gschem**(1)](/gschem/1.md), [**pcb**(1)](/pcb/1.md)

## COPYRIGHT

```
Copyright © 1999-2011 gEDA Contributors.  License GPLv2+: GNU GPL
version 2 or later.  Please see the `COPYING' file included with this
program for full details.
```

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.