Hi! >>> If you're at the bleeding edge, you'll have to package the >>> styles and stuff with scid (which I consider a major design >>> fault) plus people will most likely not know how to use [...] >>> enable it would probably be good, or the config file you >>> mentioned. (Though this will involve some work.) > I second that. > > I am trying to get the maintainership of some debian > packages (Scid which is still on 3.6.1, Skak, Chess12). > So I can update them to the last versions.
Thats good news, so you want to get the current 3.6.xx line to Debian? (This is especially of interest as it will also move on to the spin-off distributions.) > But Debian is still one of few distributions which include > them (Suse dont include them. although version 10.3). > Chessfss is not included in Debian. Point here is, that Debian offers them by means of TeXLive. If you install the "normal tex" you'll not get it. Including TeXLive into debian was a major step and the other distributions still just install the old tetex package structure. > So I would suggest, keep it on the current chess-package. That is keep out skak in your current implementation entirely? (Just a question out of curiosity.) > And see if skak can be enabled (optional?) in the future > versions... Probably there is a way to do it in a modular manner. There could be a "failsafe default", something that uses the old chess package, but is still clean LaTeX2e and maybe a "modern setup" that uses things like skak et al. Some, "if you know how to set it up, we need <documented her in detail>, this will give you the perfect output" switch. But as you've to touch some code in there anyway you could probably already prepare it for the move to another package. I don't know the internals of scids TeX export, but probably it could be desinged that way and this will probably even safe work later on? BTW: if you want to work on this part, and your work is greatly appreciated, there's a cvs set up at sourceforge and you could surley get (writing) access to it. -- 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
