CTAN has a new package: xskak
Date: December 20, 2007 12:52:03 PM CET
The package below has been put up on tug.ctan.org and should soon
be at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xskak v.1
Author's name: Ulrike Fischer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xskak/
Summary description: xskak --- An extension to the package skak for chess
typesetting
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
The main point of xskak is to save informations about a chess game for later use e.g. to loop through a game to make an animated board. It also extends the input that the parsing commands can handle and offers an interface to define and switch between indefinite levels of styles.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xskak/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xskak (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
The main point of xskak is to save informations about a chess game for later use e.g. to loop through a game to make an animated board. It also extends the input that the parsing commands can handle and offers an interface to define and switch between indefinite levels of styles.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xskak/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xskak (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
xskak – An extension to the skak package for chess typesetting
Xskak, as its prime function, saves information about a chess game for later use (e.g., to loop through a game to make an animated board). The package also extends the input that the parsing commands can handle and offers an interface to define and switch between indefinite levels of styles.
| Package | xskak |
| Version | 1.5 2019-06-23 |
| Copyright | 2007–2019 Ulrike Fischer |
| Maintainer | Ulrike Fischer |