Author: Stephen A. Boak
Date: 18:51:52 02/15/01
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On February 15, 2001 at 12:35:58, John Merlino wrote: >On February 15, 2001 at 11:15:54, Stephen A. Boak wrote: > >>I believe I asked this question a long time ago, regarding CM6000, but didn't >>get a complete answer (or solution, at any rate) at the time. The same problem >>occurs with CM8000 (both with unpatched and patched U.S. versions). >> >>When I do an Edit/Copy/Move List w-Tabs/Auto-Annotate and paste the annotation >>into Wordpad, I always get approximately three groups of unreadable comment >>lines (each preceded by the ';' semi-colon) containing garbage characters >>(squares, etc), within the overall annotation text. >> >>Each group contains approx 6-10 unreadable lines. >> >>Each time I copy Auto-Annotate to Wordpad this occurs and I have to delete the >>unreadable lines. >> >>What triggers these garbage characters? Is there a font set I am missing on my >>hard drive that is necessary to translate these garbage characters into >>something meaningful? >> >>The rest of my copied text contains Short/Standard Algebraic Notation and >>English characters, all of which are perfectly legitimate and understandable. >> >>Thanks in advance for any help with this repeated problem. > >This is not a bug. The "garbage characters" that you are seeing are would show >up as the figurine notation characters if you displayed the text in the >Chessmaster font. This text is the "summary" text that you can see if you go to >the "Auto-Annotation" tab in the Annotation window and move the game back to the >starting position. > >cm Thanks for the tip! It readily & completely fixed the problem when I chose Chessmaster 8000 font in Wordpad, then pasted the Auto-Annotate info. NOTE--The 'garbage' characters I was seeing were not erroneous-font displays of the "summary" statistics (that part always pasted fine into Wordpad), but rather for the miniature board diagrams with pieces, which are displayed in Auto-Annotate at key points in the game (and carried over via the cut & paste to the Wordpad file). Having those diagrams at the key error points in the game really helps me when I review the game by reading the Wordpad printout. Thanks again for the help.
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