Speaking again about Art of Electronics 3rd edn.

[mc]

In between the topic drifts I seem to recall someone said something about
redesigning the schematic circuit diagrams in A of E to conform to some kind
of standards.

Please don't. A of E is almost the only academically published book I've
ever seen with consistently good schematics.

Schematics are a living language. Conforming to standards isn't everything.
(Standards often require thing that *never* catch on in actual use.)

An experienced author - such as Horowitz and Hill and their team - will have
a good "feel" for what is easy to understand and what is not. What is
customary in academic publishing is to use artists with little electronics
experience, who tend to produce clumsy layouts with lots of momentarily
misleading features. A of E has good intuitions about how to communicate in
schematic diagrams. Keep it that way...

 

[JeffM]

I seem to recall someone said something about
redesigning the schematic circuit diagrams in A of E
to conform to some kind of standards.
Please don't.
Conforming to standards isn't everything.
mc

Standards are what keep us out of chaos.

IIRC, the concensus
(well, as close as we come to that around here)
was *Pick one methodology and stick with it*
as well as
*Mention other commonly-used methods as well
and show examples.*


A bigger argument was over 1k2 vs 1.2k.