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H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Sep 27, 2016 07:01 AM UTC:

That indeed is more like what I need. This graphics set is not mentioned at all on the graphics.dir/index.html page, though, which is why I did not find it. It seems to be one of the most extensive sets we have, so I think it definitely deserves to be mentioned there.

A small issue: the 'small' set seems to merge the Utrecht pieces with those from Jean-Louis Cazaux, and has many new pieces based on either of those. (E.g. the original Cazaux pieces are only available in white, which is a pity, because I really like those pieces, but here some also exist in black versions.) It still does not contain all the Utrecht pieces, though (e.g. no Tank or Airplane). In this particular case (Grant Acedrex) I need a Crocodile and Griffin, and these are lacking from the transparent set. I would also like to have the Utrecht version of the Lion (although I like the Cazaux version better), to conform with the diagram in the original article. Could those images be added (e.g. as W/BCrocodile.gif, W/BGriffon.gif and W/BLionU.gif)? I currently have them as .png, but I can convert them to .gif, and send you a zip file with the missing pieces,if you are OK with that.

[Edit] I put a tar ball with some additional transparent 'Utrecht' pieces (properly renamed to blend in with the existing images) on my website at http://hgm.nubati.net/variants/small.tar.gz. Could you please merge those with the .../graphics.dir/small directory? I also posted tar balls with the XBoard piece images rendered as 50x50 and 33x33. I hope that you also want to install those in .../graphics.dir/xboard50 and .../graphics.dir/xboard33 directories.[/Edit]

A completely different issue:

Could you make a Unix-style file-system link to the file .../membergraphics/MSinteractive-diagrams/betza.gif with the name betza.js (i.e. do "ln betza.gif betza.js" in that directory)? Then that JavaScript file would occur under two names in that directory, and I could use the .js link to refer to it from HTML pages (so the diagram would work in the Chrome browser). While I could (hopefully) still update it through the .gif link by uploading new versions.(At least if the upload server script would work by overwrite, rather than deleting the old version, and creating a new one.)


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