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17. Changes in v2.0

17.1 General remarks

ChessTask is now based on the LaTeX package "skak" by Torben Hoffmann, which provides much more features than my own style "dbchess". A lot of internal changes were necessary but for you the user almost everything stays the same. Same handling, same buttons, same menu entries...unfortunately some of the old commands from "dbchess" are not available anymore.

However, ChessTask is fully compatible to older versions. While reading files that stem from a 1.x version the mentioned deprecated expressions are replaced automatically.

So all that is left for you to do now is to install the "skak" files as described in Installing the LaTeX style and the fonts and try some of the old or...

17.2 New features

17.3 Other changes


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