Author: Keith Evans
Date: 15:23:37 12/01/01
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To anyone interested in creating chess diagrams from board positions pasted from Chessmaster: Word/WordPad seem to do some sort of translation to the character used by the Chessmaster 8000 font for black's light squared bishop when diagrams are pasted into Word/WordPad. This results in the bishop being turned into an empty light colored square. This can be avoided by first pasting the diagrams into notepad, saving the file, and then opening it in Word/WordPad. When I did this I saved the notepad file with the extension ".doc" to that I could just double click on it. This occurred to me because I'm used to pasting text copied from Internet Explorer into Notepad to strip formatting before pasting it into Word/Excel. This is pretty easy to do, so I'm happy now. Maybe there's a setting somewhere in Word to turn this kind of thing off. Anyone know? (I remember that Outlook does some translations, and I once had a problem where a vendor couldn't send me a serial number readable in Outlook because of this. Fortunately it was for some Unix EDA software, so I just read the mail on a Unix box.) I started to research Windows fonts/character codes a bit, but it's much more complicated than I ever imagined so I gave up. For Chessmaster 9000 it might be a good idea to make a new backwards compatible font which has two copies of black's light squared bishop present. Just pick an encoding for the new bishop that Word doesn't special case, and change the diagram export code to use the new encoding. (I hope that this makes sense!) Regards, Keith
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