ChessTask is a frontend for easily creating chess tasks with LaTeX. The tasks are stored in a list which can be exported, either to a LaTeX input file, or to HTML files.
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- New features: * Added the new LaTeX output format "ChessCards" (see menu "Export") * The paper size for the LaTeX output can be selected between "ISO A4" and "US letter" (see menu "Export"/"Options") * The HTML export uses its own TrueType font for displaying figurine and Informator symbols via CSS (see "The DBChess fonts" in manual) * The current board can now be pasted to the clipboard in either LaTeX or HTML format (see menu "Export") * Several key accelerators (shortcuts) have been added (see "Keyboard shortcuts" in manual) Please refer to the manual for further information. - Internal changes: * Several parts of the source code were rewritten for the shift to the "skak" package. - Changes affecting the user: * Some of the old "dbchess.sty" commands do not work anymore: + The move environment "||" changed to "\movecomment{}" + A capture is now written as "x" instead of "*" + The ":" is not replaced by "...," any longer * The LaTeX inter-word spaces \-,\ ,~,\/,\_,\@ and \, are recognized and replaced automatically during HTML output. * PNG files are now used instead of the GIF format throughout ChessTask * The Makefiles in exported LaTeX directories get an additional target "pdf" for automatically creating PDF files * PDF and PS are now created with a resolution of 600 dpi
- New features: * Added the new LaTeX output format "ChessCards" (see menu "Export") * The paper size for the LaTeX output can be selected between "ISO A4" and "US letter" (see menu "Export"/"Options") * The HTML export uses its own TrueType font for displaying figurine and Informator symbols via CSS (see "The DBChess fonts" in manual) * The current board can now be pasted to the clipboard in either LaTeX or HTML format (see menu "Export") * Several key accelerators (shortcuts) have been added (see "Keyboard shortcuts" in manual) Please refer to the manual for further information. - Internal changes: * Several parts of the source code were rewritten for the shift to the "skak" package. - Changes affecting the user: * Some of the old "dbchess.sty" commands do not work anymore: + The move environment "||" changed to "\movecomment{}" + A capture is now written as "x" instead of "*" + The ":" is not replaced by "...," any longer * The LaTeX inter-word spaces \-,\ ,~,\/,\_,\@ and \, are recognized and replaced automatically during HTML output. * PNG files are now used instead of the GIF format throughout ChessTask * The Makefiles in exported LaTeX directories get an additional target "pdf" for automatically creating PDF files * PDF and PS are now created with a resolution of 600 dpi
- New features: * Added the new LaTeX output format "ChessCards" (see menu "Export") * The paper size for the LaTeX output can be selected between "ISO A4" and "US letter" (see menu "Export"/"Options") * The HTML export uses its own TrueType font for displaying figurine and Informator symbols via CSS (see "The DBChess fonts" in manual) * The current board can now be pasted to the clipboard in either LaTeX or HTML format (see menu "Export") * Several key accelerators (shortcuts) have been added (see "Keyboard shortcuts" in manual) Please refer to the manual for further information. - Internal changes: * Several parts of the source code were rewritten for the shift to the "skak" package. - Changes affecting the user: * Some of the old "dbchess.sty" commands do not work anymore: + The move environment "||" changed to "\movecomment{}" + A capture is now written as "x" instead of "*" + The ":" is not replaced by "...," any longer * The LaTeX inter-word spaces \-,\ ,~,\/,\_,\@ and \, are recognized and replaced automatically during HTML output. * PNG files are now used instead of the GIF format throughout ChessTask * The Makefiles in exported LaTeX directories get an additional target "pdf" for automatically creating PDF files * PDF and PS are now created with a resolution of 600 dpi
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