Ulrich Dirr schrieb:
Hi! > 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. Well, ok. Then 2007. But I strongly encourage to keep away quite a bit from the bleeding edges. I mean I can handle setting up a tex-tree, no problem but if this funktionality is improved (which I find a really good thing) I'd really like to have it done in such a way that _everyone_ can use it regardless wether (s)he is a TeX addict or not. >> 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? Ideally I'd like to have a button "Generate PDF" that exports to latex and runs pdflatex against it ;) And there is a good reason to do this if I want to have a paper copy. Additionally, you shouldn't expect everybody who "knows latex" to know a thing about "how do I install a package". I did some years of sysadmin in a large cluster at the universities department of theoretical physics. There you've guys that can't even write a letter without the usage of LaTeX but those users who would be really able to set it up themselves, well you can count them on your fingers. (One hand would be enough, you'd have some left anyway.) Even most of _THEM_ just hit "install latex" in <place whatever package management their linux has> > But never mind. I was just proposing how you can get the best output ... This is a good thing, don't get me wrong :) > Much more important would be how we can configure scid to > write the code we want. Perfectly agree. With a probably not optimal but simple, good stlye usable without deep knowledg of LaTeX' internals. Thats what I'd suggest. > 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 Sounds good. One should IMHO just keep in mind that the defaults has to be set such, that anybody without expert knowledge can handle it. (Ie. those people arround who just hit "install latex".) -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau Langewiesener Str. 37 98693 Ilmenau Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
