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Subject: Re: When PGN goes wrong? My list of the 18 most common PGN sins

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:40:06 10/19/00

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On October 19, 2000 at 05:33:35, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>On October 18, 2000 at 22:35:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I totally disagree here.  The purpose of a "standard" is _not_ "flexibility".
>>It is preciseness.
>
>Yes but a bad standard remains a bad standard: pgn is a bad standard brecause it
>requires a lot of stupid things.
>
>E.g.: why on earth the line of the text should be fixed? I see only good reasons
>for not fixing it.

I never took it as a line _must_ be 79 chars.  I took that as a max, and I
stay a bit below it.



>
>Than the handling of variations and comments is not specified properly.

What about () and {}?  I implemented those with no problems, and allow them
to be nested as deep as anyone can go.


>
>I think we need a better standard and I hope it will be an XML-based one.
>
>regards
>Franz



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