Hi guys, Sorry to resurrect this... I've found that skak comes in the Fedora repositories (unless I've picked it up from one of the repositories I added) and it works great with the test tex file that Ulrich provided, however it appears that the opening reports need more than just swapping "chess12" with "skak". I get a report out but without any chess pieces on the board!
>From the sounds of what's been said, am I right in assuming this is something that everyone's aware of and upgrading to skak properly will be a part of the proposed tex backend rewrite? I'd just like to know :) In the meanwhiles, I'm happy enough using text opening reports :) Cheers, Dale On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Alexander Wagner < a.wag...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > 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 >
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
