On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:30:59PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Op Do, 13 februari, 2014 10:10 pm schreef Yann Dirson: > > > > * "@shogi @sho" gives a strange result, with no traditional tile for > > the elephant, ... > > This is because we don't have a tile for the Elephant yet in the Shogi > kanji piece set. ($(datadir)/xboard/themes/shogi/WhiteElephant.svg etc.) > This set was simply ripped from some GPL'ed shogi program, which > apparently did not support Sho. I don't like them much anyway, I think the > old xShogi pieces were much nicer (but alas, not SVG).
If we have an easy way to convert a TTF font's glyphs to SVG, we can easily compose new pieces. In Omaha, I compose a virgin SVG piece with rendering of a TTF font - it will make it easier to customise, letting users select their own font; you might want to go this way as well. > > ... whereas "@shogi @chu" is more consistent by forcing the > > western theme to avoid the problem > > Well, @chu defines its own -pieceImageDirectory, which overrules the one > defined in the @shogi file. Apparently you don't have the chu pieces > installed, that it falls back on the default set. Hm, "-pid ~~/themes/chu" assumes hachu installed the svg, it seems. Wouldn't it be better to ship the theme with xboard ? If 2 humans can play Chu in xboard without hachu installed, with western style, why not letting them play with japanese style in the same conditions ? > > * with @mini, two-machine game, the white king starts by capturing his > > own pawn. Have to investigate: I have not tested gnuminishogi much in > > xboard mode, relying on shogi tests only till now. At least I have no > > such problem in Omaha, there may be something linked to the commands sent > > by xboard (omaha is very minimalist in what it requests). Will keep you > > informed on this. > > OK, I will have a look to this as well. Don't spend too much time on this, I will polish a fix and push it this WE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
