[NTG-context] Fwd: Draw chess board

6 Jun 2007

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From: Zhichu Chen 
Date: Jun 6, 2007 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Draw chess board
To: Mojca Miklavec 

Hi

I've tried to write a test file which can only handle ;B[??], ;W[??],
AB[??], AW[??] now, and I haven't added the interaction part. But it is a
good start.

Any suggestions?

On 5/26/07, Mojca Miklavec  wrote:
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On 5/25/07, Zhichu Chen wrote:
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Hi Mojca
I original intention is:
First, check the sgf file to decide how many rows and lines should be
used.
For some instance, there is no need to draw the full 19x19 board, like
conversion steps demostration---best choices around the corner of the
board.
Second, I'd like to take advantage of PDF Javascript to show every step
by
clicking on some area.
Interesting idea!
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\fieldstack seems to be a good choice. But if I use
some script like sgf2mpost, I don't know how to if there is an easy way
to
determine how many steps does the sgf include.
I didn't mean using sgf2mpost script directly, but to use it as a help
when creating a new one [in ruby for example].
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If I solved the sgf problem, I think I can input a game manually by
using
sgf syntax
That's what I meant.
Mojca
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On 5/25/07, Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com > wrote:
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On 5/24/07, Zhichu Chen wrote:
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Thanks Wolfgang
The first link is very useful. I will took its idea. I really want
to
use
metapost's scantoken to read sgf file directly, so it can easily be
a
cross-platform solution.
You can use either TeX or metapost to parse sgf file. But you can
forget about TeX, I suppose. Metapost is an option if you love
challenges, but it's not the only possibility if you're looking for
cross-platform solutions.
In http://match.stanford.edu/bump/sgf2dg-4.026.tar.gz you
have
sgf2mpost.c with 1000 lines of pure C code which parses the file and
generates metapost output.
If I was in your place, I would write a ruby (or lua ;) parser (the
file above can help you, but you can probably parse the input in a
much more clever & efficient way with ruby) + metapost code generator.
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Then you write a ConTeXt module with
\startSGFscript{name} or \startSGFfile or \startSGFgame or
\startGOgame
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.... the very special format of your game ...
\stopSGFscript
You write the content into a file (you can also prepare external files
and tell ConTeXt which one is the source file), call "texmfstart
your-great-ruby-script file.sgf", which generates metapost output, and
then you include that one in the ConTeXt document.
I'm really not sure if parsing SGF files with metapost can bring you
anything ... ruby scripts are fully portable, at least in ConTeXt.
Mojca
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2007/5/24, Zhichu Chen < zhichu.chen@gmail.com>:
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Hi
I love chess games, especially one kind of them which is
generally
called
Go.
I know there is some file can store each details in one game:
http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/
AFAIK, there is no module available to draw chess in ConTeXt
now. I
wanna do
this by using MetaPost and fieldstack. But I don't know how to
tell
On 5/24/07, Wolfgang Schuster
 wrote:
metapost
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the details of the sgf file. Can anyone give me a suggestion?
BTW, I don't like the name. It's invented by acient Chinese and
it's
called
Weiqi. I think we can call it Siege Chess in English.
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Best Regards
Chen
Hi Chen,
if you mean Go take a look at the following page:
http://match.stanford.edu/bump/go.html
There are also two packages on CTAN for LaTeX:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#gamesgo
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Wolfgang
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