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Man and Beast 03: From Ungulates Outward. Systematic naming of the simplest Oblique Pieces.

By Charles Gilman.

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By Charles Gilman.

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Man and Beast 03: From Ungulates Outward. Systematic naming of the simplest Oblique Pieces.

🔔Notification on Mon, Jan 15 07:53 PM EST:

The editor Fergus Duniho has revised this page.

H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, May 12, 2021 03:56 AM EDT in reply to Ben Reiniger from Tue May 11 11:12 PM:

@H.G., The change was to conform better to FFEN notation; together with that change occuring back in 2018, I think fixing the handful of pages in the comment I linked to last time is the better solution.

Here's the comments recording the change in behavior:
https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?itemid=DiagramDesigner&order=DESC&first=36719&last=36723

Yep, that is how you wreck a website.

Ben Reiniger wrote on Tue, May 11, 2021 11:12 PM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from 01:02 PM:

@H.G., The change was to conform better to FFEN notation; together with that change occuring back in 2018, I think fixing the handful of pages in the comment I linked to last time is the better solution.

Here's the comments recording the change in behavior:
https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?itemid=DiagramDesigner&order=DESC&first=36719&last=36723

On this page, I copied out Pieces section to Notepad++, and used this regex:

find: (drawdiagram.php\?code[^&{"]*)\.
repl: $1$2$3{.}

This finds periods after drawdiagram.php?code and any number of characters that are not among &, {, ". The exclusions prevent searching beyond the ffen code from the drawdiagram script. The match always gets the furthest ., and so we replace from the rightmost side; repeating this (and the excluded {) eventually replaces everything we want.

This means I have to mash "replace all" until all the replacements are done, but that's fine.

There's a bigger issue with generated images, like the ZEBU (.ZRH) and BISON (.JZ). When copying from the webUI editor, the surrounding squiggly brackets got url-encoded, so that they were missed by the regex, and the leading . got caught and changed. I manually fixed these two.

I'll ponder ways to improve this process, but thought I'd describe it here so that (1) I'll remember, and (2) anybody (handier with regex?) can provide feedback.

Finally, the diagram containing the forward-only versions had suffered a newline in its url, which together with some added indentation for some reason, interpreted the additional whitespaces as requesting stones added to the board. I fixed that as well.

And on a possibly totally unrelated note: some of the math expressions are weird, seemingly including extraneous characters just before every exponent character?

Jörg Knappen wrote on Tue, May 11, 2021 01:09 PM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from 01:02 PM:

Just a few days ago I created some diagrams with dots meaning plain and empty squares. I usually use numbers for fully empty lines, but dots for spaces in lines with pieces or decorations.

I suspect that there are more diagrams of this kind.

H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, May 11, 2021 01:02 PM EDT:

Is here a compelling reason to not simply fix the diagram designer so that it shows a marker for a period? At the moment it seems to completely ignore the periods in the FEN code. So it doesn't seem to be in use for something else.

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