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Subject: Re: FEN Test

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 03:36:25 01/08/00

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On January 07, 2000 at 12:48:03, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On January 07, 2000 at 08:16:18, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>On January 07, 2000 at 00:47:24, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>On January 07, 2000 at 00:09:54, Tim Mirabile wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 06, 2000 at 19:29:06, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 06, 2000 at 19:27:43, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>[D]3q3r/3b1pk1/3pB1p1/2r1n1P1/pp1NPN2/5P2/PPPQ4/1K1R4 w - - 0 25
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Unless this one doesn't show up as well, it doesn't seem to like a quoted
>>>>>>diagram.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>bruce
>>>>>
>>>>>Yours worked but mine didn't, Tim.  What did I do wrong?
>>>>
>>>>Oh, I did not enable the script on the actual board just yet - I will do that
>>>>tomorrow so I can keep an eye out for bugs, plus I want to add coordinate labels
>>>>(should I do all four sides or just bottom and left?).  The URL I gave had
>>>>message1.html in it instead of message.html.  If you add the "1" to the URL for
>>>>your messages it should also work.  I thought about cropping out the actual FEN
>>>>string, but thought it would be better to leave it there in case someone wanted
>>>>to cut and paste it into another program.
>>>
>>>Maybe you could get rid of the "[D]" then.
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>Perhaps I'm confused, but I think the [D] would still be helpful because it
>>allows a post like Dann's C.A.P. post above to appear just as a set of
>>EPD strings, without the diagrams interposed.
>>
>>Andrew
>
>If you go look at any web page, you will notice that you don't see the raw HTML
>along with the output produced by the HTML.  If there is an image, you just see
>the image, you don't see "<img align=top src='...'>" as well.
>
>The question here is what to turn "[D]<fen>" into.  I suggested that this be
>turned into a diagram.  Tim replied that he wanted to leave the FEN because he
>thought someone might snip it out in order to feed it to a program.  That sounds
>fine to me.  But the [D] is still weird and could be stripped *for display*.  So
>"[D]<fen>" could convert to "<fen>" followed by a diagram.
>
>I suggested to Tim via email that you could have "[D]<fen><tags>" which would
>allow you to specify extra arguments to your diagram command.  These would allow
>you to modify your diagram by adding captions and the like.  You could highlight
>a specific piece or draw an arrow from one square to another.  But that's more
>complicated and we might not see it soon, if ever.
>

Yep.  Sorry. I misunderstood.

Andrew



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