On 04/23/11 09:39, guivho wrote:
Hi!
I can not comment on your Mac issues (lacking such a system).
> Keyboard move entry apparently does not use 'piece translation'. Even on
> windows 7, when using 'Nederlands' or 'Deutsch', one has to enter 'Nf3'
> to get the piece moved. It does not understand keyboard entry Pf3 nor
> Sf3. So this is not an OSX-problem really.
This point, however, is understood. Actually, the way Scid handles
keyboard move entry does not use those translations at all. I do not
really know if it would even be feasible, given the fact that it would
involve to check for all possible "side effects" (duplicate meaning of
characters) within the move entry as such. So, at the moment, Scid does
not even try to understand any other keyboard input beyond English notation.
Having said that, I'm for myself, not even sure that it's consistent to
translate the piece letters at all. But I may again be a minority. I'm
using English notation throughout all my chess stuff even if I use paper
and pencil to jot down moves. Thus, I actually tend to stumble upon
those "silly" S and L notations in German literature ;)
Anyway, I'd rather prefer figurine notations within Scid and only use
English notations inside to keep the stuff consistent. I did some work
on the Figurines in the past but it didn't turn out as straight forward
as I wished it to be (mainly due to the display routines Scid uses), so
it's not yet finished. However, even figurines wouln't solve your problem.
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