Joost 't Hart wrote: Hi!
>>> Interesting stuff. And a good opportunity to get my tex installation >>> really going. >> >> As Ulrich suggested, it is a good thing to use TeXLive. >> http://tug.org/texlive/ >> >> Note that Debian provides both, classical tetex along with TeXLive, >> maybe that's the case in other distributions as well. Then you'll just >> have to select the right package. (The page above gives also a link to >> a suitable port for the fruits.) > > OMG... that was exactly it! Thanks. De rien. :) >> The whole tex backend of Scid needs quite some rework. This part is >> actually done not too well in calling the necessary TeX tools and I >> fear it will work on a unix only as well. Additionally, it still calls >> latex and tries to follow up with the usuals ps toolchain (dvips, gs >> ...) and this should probably go for pdflatex and just open the >> resulting PDF. > > Right. Not sure how far to go beyond the point of generating decent tex > output, This is a first step of course, along with moving up to skak. > with a few options (e.g. the 2-column thing from Ulrich's > example). Probably stop just right there. Well, in modern times it is easy to call the compiler and come up to the PDF. This would, I think, help the non-TeXnican a lot. It's easy enough (just tried: even/especially on a Mac it is entirely easy) to install TeXlive but then you see a large ? popping up, as you just get some /usr/bin etc populated and thats it. (Actually, in the case where I checked it out on the Mac the user installed TeXshop and missed that there is some need for LaTeX as well ;) And all this exists already, but it should be cleaned up and corrected. (If I remember correctly there're a bunch of procedures that call latex, one should definitely be enough.) > But what you would need to "compile" this tex output should be > documented, at least a list of dependendies should be there and some > hints how to satisfy those. Ok, get TeXlive and be happy :) >> There was some volunteer but till now no patch arrived here. I'll not >> be in for a couple of days so I'll not touch those things either but >> if no one goes for cleaning up that part it's the next point on my >> internal list and will be done depending on my spare time schedule. >> But I'd encourage to come up with code :) > > I am still fully engaged in the build structure (btw, got phalanx-scid > working without cygwin (!!)) and making good progress. Plan is to finish > that part on monday... That's good news. I'll surely not be able to do anything before the end of next week. -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
