Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-09 Thread Richard Vaughn
Repeating -- For some reason the mailing list is stripping my reply, so I will one more time. There is also the command line utility pgnscid which converts a pgn file to a scid database. You can then open that in scid and append it to your main database or just place a filtered subset of Pe

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-09 Thread Richard Vaughn
>>Peter Horst a écrit : >>I want to import a large number (~100) of individual pgn files into a >>Scid database. I'm under the impression that I can only import 4 at a >>time. Is this correct? If not, what is the correct procedure? Worse >>comes to worst, I can always stitch the pgn files togethe

Re: [Scid-users] question about importing pgn files

2007-03-09 Thread Richard Vaughn
Peter Horst a écrit : I want to import a large number (~100) of individual pgn files into a Scid database. I'm under the impression that I can only import 4 at a time. Is this correct? If not, what is the correct procedure? Worse comes to worst, I can always stitch the pgn files together with a

[Scid-users] Clipboard base : let's be generous !

2007-03-09 Thread pascal . georges1
We all know RAM is cheap nowadays. I made some tries with Scid and here is the memory footprint I got : Scid empty : 26 MB + -> with a base of 1.5 M games loaded : 128 MB + -> with 1 M games in clipboard : 359 MB So I think the clipboard can handle 1 M games without problems. If an user get

Re: [Scid-users] clipboard base

2007-03-09 Thread pgeorges
Lew Worthington a écrit : > Pascal, > > This is an improvement. Thanks. > > With memory quite plentiful, I frequently work with a database of a > couple > million games. It would be nice to load all Sicilians, for example, into > there. It's not a huge deal, but it would be nice. > Is there a way

[Scid-users] clipboard base

2007-03-09 Thread pgeorges
Hi, Some users asked for an increase of the maximum number of games that the clipboard base can handle (remember this base is only in memory). So I set this max to 100.000 : the memory footprint of this base will be at most 20 MB, which will not be a problem on most computers. I personaly don't

[Scid-users] Latex diagrams error

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel Jacobsen
When I export a game as latex with diagrams (comments with '#'), pdflatex creates diagrams with a white bar on the extreme right, inside the diagram frame. Is there anyone who knows how to fix this problem? The workaround is dvi->ps then convert from gsview, so it's not a huge problem. Daniel Jac