Bug#1008808: texlive-games: [chess.sty] Incorrect usage of babel breaks package

[Hilmar Preuße]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix

Am 01.04.2022 um 22:38 teilte Asher Gordon mit:

Hi,

The file /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/chess/chess.sty (used
by the LaTeX files generated by Scid) uses "\input english.sty" instead
of "\usepackage[english]{babel}". This causes a lot of errors when
compiling a LaTeX file that uses the chess package. If the errors are
ignored (e.g. by using "-interaction nonstopmode"), then the compiled
document has a lot of garbage at the start.

Many thanks for the report if you search for the package on CTAN, you'll come here: https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/chess/chess/

"The original (and now somewhat dated) TeX chess font package.





Hilmar
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You'll notice that the package is quite old and I'd assume that nobody will ever care to change something. Indeed on the upper right corner you'll see a note: Potential users should consider skak (for alternative fonts, and notation support), texmate (for alternative notation support), or chessfss (for flexible font choices)." So you're actively pushed to other packages. Please consider to follow this recommendation.

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