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Subject: Re: Chess Publishing

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 15:04:08 08/27/05

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On August 27, 2005 at 17:40:09, Christos Gitsis wrote:

>On August 26, 2005 at 20:50:53, Louis Lev wrote:
>
>>Hello:
>>
>>After working with LaTeX on both PCs and Macs, I have decided to look for an
>>easier way to produce publication-quality output of chess games, diagrams, and
>>annotations.  Are there full-featured programs out there (i.e. Chessmaster,
>>Fritz, etc.) that have quality typesetting options?
>>
>>Any info would be most appreciated--
>>
>>Louis
>
>Hello Luis,
>
>I have seen some beautiful printed material produced by Fritz, although I myself
>have never used it and I cannot give any details.
>
>On the other hand, I am completely satisfied with Scid + LaTeX, and I think it
>is fairly easy to use (especially for one who is a little familiar with LaTeX).

I have no knowledge whatsoever about typesetting. Having said that, there is a
freely downloadable program called LyX that seems to be a friendlier front-end
to LaTeX that you might try.

I run Fedora Core 4 and just did a "yum install lyx" and it was ready to go.

Roy



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