Re: [Chessx-users] chessx text editing

[Jens N. <jen...@gm...>]

Hi Frans,

I have never given a thought to this, so I had to think about this for some minutes.
There are at least two issues:
- Forcing a newline might break our automatic formatting mechanism
- Saving and retrieving a newline to / from PGN is not specified in the PGN standard (afaik)

If you are only using ChessX, you can make use of a dirty hack: Insert "<br>" wherever you need a line break.
But this is of course not portable and other tools will only show <br> instead of a newline.
And this might not even work in future versions of ChessX, so this is a really dirty hack.

Same with "\n" - I don't think, that this is supported by other tools.

The problem with the newline in PGN is, that after 80 characters, a line should be terminated and the remainder of any game text or annotation should continue on the next line. Thus we cannot simply rely on a newline character in the annotation - newlines are filtered out by the PGN parser.

Does anybody know of some other PGN based software which handles newlines in comments?

Jens

> Am 06.04.2016 um 21:23 schrieb frans jacobs <jac...@gm...>:
> 
> Dear chessx-users,
> 
> How do you add several paragraphs of comments to a chess game in ChessX? 
> 
> If I start a new sentence on a new line in the comment edit-box from the edit-menu, this sentence first fills the previous line once it gets inserted in the game text. How can this be prevented, in order to get several paragraphs of comments?
> 
> Best, Frans Jacobs
> 
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