SCID-vs-PC

Sparks

Not sure how interesting this is to folks, but version 4.13 of SCID-vs-PC just got released, and it has that new LaTeX report format I've been working on for a while included in it. It's still not fully complete and odds are I'll be tweaking it for a while, but right now if you feed in PGN to SCID and analyse it with (say) Stockfish, it'll produce this kind of report via LaTeX:



Full report (77kB PDF)

If you prefer to go over your computer analysis using a chessboard, a printout and a large mug of tea, this might be useful...

Ficheall

That's class. Could you give a small excerpt of the .tex file code?
I couldn't see an example anywhere, but I possibly followed the wrong links.

I'd rather not go downloading skak as it'd be pretty obvious that it's not work-related... Just in case the supervisor does be checking up on me...

Sparks

I don't have the .tex for that report to hand right now, but it'd look similar to this one:


edit: Okay, so boards doesn't like .tex files. It's just text though, so rename this one to Round2.tex and that's what the output looks like.

But you still have to feed that into LaTeX like so:

latex Round2.tex
dvips -o Round2.ps Round2.dvi
ps2pdf Round2.ps

And that leaves you with the Round2.pdf file to look at in acrobat or print off.

It's a bit of a chain; but if you had 10,000 games in a SCID database, it can export them all into the one document so you wouldn't have to do it 10,000 times.

(Also, there are *lots* of tools to do this stuff for you, LaTeX has been around a very, very long time).

You wouldn't be downloading skak on it's own by the way, you'd be downloading a LaTeX distribution (if you're running Linux, TeXLive is the standard thing, if you're running on an Apple it'll probably be MacTex, and if it's Windows, probably MiKTeX - all of those should have the needed bits by default).

Ficheall

Oh, I have latex aye - as you point out in the blog - only a certain type of person uses Word

I was just curious as to how the board diagrams were done, but presumably that's the \showboard and just calls another, non-latex program?

Are comments added in "manually" to the .tex file, or are they also drawn from an external source?

Sparks

No, skak does the \showboard stuff in LaTeX.
The comments in the .tex file meaning the comments on the game? They're in the PGN file. SCID outputs them in the LaTeX report.