Hi Mojca,

The stones are very very nice now, thank you for your hints.

Since I haven't used TikZ before, I have no idea how to handle these events.
I'll learn it later and rewrite my module to be more professional :)

All I'm thinking now is how to make each step a single symbol so that I
could use \fieldstack to demonstrate the game.

By the way, I modified my module to do some fieldstack thing, but it gets a
weird error. I have no idea what's the error about, it's fine when I'm using
MPdrawing environment but it can't output anything when I switch to buffer
and use \processMPbuffer.

On 6/10/07, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/6/07, Zhichu Chen wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've tried to write a test file which can only handle ;B[??], ;W[??],
> > AB[??], AW[??] now, and I haven't added the interaction part. But it is
> a
> > good start.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Wow - that's really, really impressive! You indeed started parsing the
> strings in plain TeX!
>
> I've changed your source slightly, to give you an idea of yet another
> approach: using TikZ. It's main advantage over metapost might be:
> - you can draw more fancy stones (see the example - that could be made
> configurable of course), although teoretically the same could be
> achived with slightly improved smooth shading mechanism in mptopdf
> macros
> - might be easier to backport to (La)TeX
> - I can imagine your module to be a new, really nice TikZ
> package/module (that could be used in other flavours of TeX) + some
> fancy ConTeXt additions (user interface, javascript, ...).
>
> The main difference is that you need to store all the variables in
> TeX, not in metapost, so that part should be rewritten as well (which
> I didn't do).
>
> But simply forget about my stupid comments about (La)TeX for and do it
> your way now.
>
> Mojca
>
> (I have some other comments, but it's too early to speak about them,
> since the module is not ready/complete yet.)
>
>
> On 5/24/07, Zhichu Chen wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I love chess games, especially one kind of them which is generally
> called
> > Go.
> >
> > I know there is some file can store each details in one game:
> > http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/
> >
> > AFAIK, there is no module available to draw chess in ConTeXt now. I
> wanna do
> > this by using MetaPost and fieldstack. But I don't know how to tell
> metapost
> > the details of the sgf file. Can anyone give me a suggestion?
> >
> > BTW, I don't like the name. It's invented by acient Chinese and it's
> called
> > Weiqi. I think we can call it Siege Chess in English.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards
> > Chen
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to
> the Wiki!
>
> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /
> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
> webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
> archive  : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
> wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>


-- 
Best Regards
Chen
----------------------------------------------------------------

          Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility
         No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China
             tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com
                                               | www.sinap.ac.cn
----------------------------------------------------------------