Ulrich Dirr schrieb: > On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:28 AM Willem van den Akker > wrote: >> I am using skak-1.2 which is the current version >> distributed with debian-testing. Chessfss is currently >> not included in the debian-testing distribution so it >> must be packaged (if no copyright issues are involved). >> Where can I find documentation about the skak library. >> The documentation included in the package is not helping >> very much. Googling around hasnt delivered also much >> documentation. > > skak 1.2 is too old, you need 1.4 or 1.4a. You can find it > on CTAN (The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) is > the primary repository for TeX-related software on the > Internet http://www.tug.org/ctan.html) or > http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-skak/ or on a > TeXLive CD/DVD.
Sorry to hook in here again: if you even go beyond "Debian Testing" you'll get to areas where nearly no distribution will just deliver it, don't speak of the world beyond Linux... I don't even know of a distribution that comes with Skak at all except Debian (and descendents) by means of the TeXLive included. I'd really keep away from the bleeding edges. And I'd do this _quite a bit_. Probably the output is not _that_ perfect (it will be better than everything other arround, anyway) but the potential audience that can actually use this function will increase dramatically if one can base it on packages that everybody "just has without even knowing". If you're at the bleeding edge, you'll have to package the styles and stuff with scid (which I consider a major design fault) plus people will most likely not know how to use them. To come back to my department back then: the usual way to use a sty was not to set up a texmf and point proper environment variables there, this was left for the experts and geeks, but just to copy the same sty to every folder where it is required. (Resulting in the same file beeing cluttered arround $HOME/ subdirs) And there we speak about people who do LaTeX all day... Additionally, I just had a short look to chessfs, not at the other packages you mentioned yet. I'd _suggest_ to keep it out of the _default_ as it is "just" eyecandy. A switch to enable it would probably be good, or the config file you mentioned. (Though this will involve some work.) -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau Langewiesener Str. 37 98693 Ilmenau Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
