Good Morning!

>      Also it is well possible that one wants to add a bit
>      more prosa there, so considering multiple lines would be
>      nice. Think of a short discussion of the main features of
>      the resulting game. Surely e.g. a French Winawer has a
>      very different layout than the Classical and you'd want to
>      drop a note about Bb4 here.
> 
> Again, I also thought about that, but UI would get overcrowded.

But with a oneliner I can not add very much information.
IMHO one has to find a way to handle that, as adding
commentary is IMHO a crucial functionality here. I could
also imagine displaying the start of the comment and click
on it to open a popup for full display.

>     - Move Nags:
> 
>      I miss a flag that says: "do not play". This is differen
>      from "??" as it could even be a strong line, but one that
>      leads to positions one does not like, ie. lines one wants
>      to exclude from ones own repertoir but that are not weak.
> 
>      In the above example someone who plays the Winawer only
>      would surely want to exclude the Classical. Ok, marking
>      Bb4 with !! sounds a bit strange, but Nf6 with ??, well I
>      don't know ;)
> Exclude -> use a red marker.

Do you plan some sort of "hide all lines marked with red" or
"show only blue lines"?

>     - Colour codes
> 
>      One might want to allow userdefinde labels, but I guess
>      this is already in your set of ideas.
>
> Yes, but I decided to simplify things where user data must go in 
> annotation area, and only there.

It is a different sort of annotation. I'd just like to have
a sort of reminder for me like "ah, for that sort of comment
I always used yellow". (Set once and for all a clear text
for the colouring.)

>     - Comment position
> 
>      I'm a bit confused by this menue popping up in the context
>      menue of the move line. Actually one is commenting the
>      position _before_ this move is entered, so it should more
>      likely be in the Mask menue, or just an MLE where the
>      current comment shows up that can be edited. 
> 
> It is the best place for me : everything in the popup menu. Mask menu is 
> for file management, not data.

Well, but I right click on Bb4, chose "comment position" but
the position that gets commented is the _current_ one, not
the one after Bb4. Ie. either it should comment the
resulting position or the input line should be opened not by
clicking on a move.

>      Here also it might very well be that one would want
>      to add some sort of discussion concerning the
>      position at hand, I think a oneliner is probably a
>      bit short. Think of a short discussion of the
>      position at hand, say general strategy, weak points,
>      strong points and so on.
> 
> Why not ? Anyway that's pretty to change later, file being compatible.

How should I add such a discussion if I only have one line?

>     - stm-Files
> 
>      Though it is clearly not the intention, do you see a
>      possibility to have an easier text format for the
>      stm-files? (BTW: my mime-base tells me .stm to be some
>      audio file.) The current one is surely very nice for tcl
>      to read in, but I admit that I sometimes like to set up
>      such stuff by hand, especially if I want to do this
>      outside of scid, e.g. if I've already some data at hand or
>      if I just want to correct a typo that appears throughout
>      the file.
> 
> Let the user write by hand such file is unmaintainable
> (for the user himself). Such file should contain thousands
> of moves. The format used is the best : to load a Mask is
> just one line of code "source file.msk".

I see your point here. From my experience, I've similar code
in other areas and though I generally do not _WANT_ to edit
it, I sometimes _HAVE TO_ due to a simple set of typoes I
can not just search/replace in the GUI. The other file in
question however is actually pretty simple compared to the
list of lists of lists you require for the mask-file. It's
just a suggestion to have it in a "readable" format.

-- 

Kind regards,

Alexander Wagner
Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau
Langewiesener Str. 37
98693 Ilmenau
Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617


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