RE: [Bug-gnubg] Marked move characters suggestion

[Albert Silver]

> We could supply some reasonable default, and allow users to change the
> style through gnubg.gtkrc if they really insists that moves with
> "whoppers" should be coloured in Burger King's colours and Burger
King's
> font!

I agree. In fact in the future I'd propose a miniature picture of a
Whopper sandwich for blunders, a bag of fries for an error, and gift
certificate to the local gym if the error rate is too bad.

On a serious note, a similar issue exists in chess for chess notation.
Countries use different letters to represent the pieces such as Lg3 in
Germany would mean Bishop (Laufer) to the g3 square. Bg3 would be the
English equivalent and Fg3 for France. The simplest solution was to use
picture fonts for the pieces as can be seen in many places such as:

http://www.partae.com/fonts/products/linares/linares.html

(they make special game fonts for a wide range of games BTW, including
backgammon)

Still, in the major programs such as Chess Assistant and Chessbase, one
can select the nationality of one's piece fonts or set one's own. In a
perfect world I'd suggest using or designing a special picture/font to
represent each type of error (such as 2 checkers overlapping each other
and a cube with a 64 in it). As it is, I'd reiterate an old suggestion
I made, echoing Michael's here, to use a square for cube decisions and
a circle for checker play decisions. I don't know if this would fit
easily, but that is partly why I suggested a one ply per line in the
GUI design I made. For example a checker play doubtful move and cube
blunder might look like:

13/7(2) O?! □??

                                        Albert

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> Jørn