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.

• A capture was a `*' and is now a `x'.
• The `:' is not an active character anymore, so you have to write `...,' all by yourself during text input.
• The old move environment `||' is replaced by the macro `\movecomment{}'.

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

• The new LaTeX output format ChessCards was added (see also ChessCards files).
• The paper size for the LaTeX output can be set to either "US letter" or "ISO A4" (see also Options/Paper size).
• The HTML export now uses its own TrueType font for displaying figurines and Informator symbols via CSS (see also The DBChess fonts).
• The current board position can now be pasted to the clipboard in either LaTeX (see Copy LaTeX Position) or HTML (see Copy HTML Position) format.
• Several key accelerators ("shortcuts") have been added (see also Keyboard shortcuts).

17.3 Other changes

• The LaTeX inter-word spaces `\-, \ , ~, \/, \_, \@, \,' are recognized and replaced automatically during HTML output.
• PNG files are now used instead of the GIF format throughout ChessTask.
• The Makefiles in exported LaTeX directories get an additional target pdf for automatically creating PDF files (assuming that ps2pdf is installed).
• PDF and PS files are now created with a resolution of 600dpi.
• Compiling ChessTask has become much simpler by the use of Qts qmake. For further information read the file `README'.
• The translation files are now created/released using Qts Linguist.