Hi,
On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:34 AM Alexander Wagner wrote:
> > which tex system are you using? You should also use the
> > most recent packages. I would strongly recommend using
> > skak with chessfs/chessboard or texmate. There are several
> > documents which are explaining everything very detailed.
>
> I'd actually NOT suggest to use really the latest and
> greatest. Instead I'd have a look at the TeXLive version
> delivered with Debian Stable which would be a TeXLive 2005
> and base it on the package features there. One can safely
> consider that every other major distribution will offer this
> standard (at the least). At max I'd take a look at package revisions
> from TeXlive 2007.
TeXLive 2005 would be definitely the wrong distribution as skak,
chessfs/chessboard and texmate2 got serious improvements after this
release. TeXLive 2007 is o.k.
> IMHO it would be a failure to require a Scid user to go to
> CTAN, crawl through the packages, form which he does
> (probably) not understand a thing, and set up a texmf-local
> for usage with his chess software. IMHO it would also be a
> design failure in Scid to have Scid do this setup or deliver
> the packages with the distribution, as Scis is a chess
> database, nothing more, just that and for this it is great
> stuff. I'd even prefer to drop some minor features...
I don't understand this. Why should one export data from SCID to LaTeX
when you don't know what LaTeX is and how to handle this software?
But never mind. I was just proposing how you can get the best output ...
Much more important would be how we can configure scid to write the code
we want. I'm thinking of the way
mainline/variations/subvariation/comments etc. are output. A config file
which scid reads in with a key/value syntax would be great, e.g.,
% latex_output.cfg
begin mainline = '\n\n\\mainline{'
end mainline = '}\n\n'
begin variation = '\\variation{'
end variation = '}'
...
begin text comment = '...'
end text comment = '...'
...
$14 = '\\wbetter'
$15 = '\\bbetter'
...
Then everybody could get what (s)he wants, and it would be easily
expandable to other output formats like html, xml, etc.
Pascal what do you think about this approach?
Ulrich
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