I have a problem using texmate for chess editing...

You can find the original 1.4 fonts at this site:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/chess/skak/

Unfortunately neither ubuntu nor debian have packages updated to this version.
If you are unable to install from the given site, you can raise a bug report asking for the ubuntu package to be updated.

To manually install the fonts, you should:

Copy all latex files in the original doc directory (fonts/skak/doc/*.tex )
-> to your /usr/share/doc/tex-skak/examples directory

Copy all fonts files in the original mf directory (fonts/skak/mf/*)
-> to your /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/skak directory

Copy all inputs files in the original tex directory (fonts/skak/tex/*)
 -> to your /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/skak directory

Copy the original fonts/skak/special.map file
-> to your /usr/share/texmf/fontname directory as skak.map

Update the database with the texhash command.

Note that in this version there is a new file: fonts/skak/syntax/syntax.tex
I have no idea what it is about.

You can use the files in fonts/skak/test to test the installation.

Thank you Cesare,

I followed as well as I could,with a sligth change on directories to fit texmf-texlive directory structure:

> Copy all latex files in the original doc directory
> (fonts/skak/doc/*.tex )
> -> to your /usr/share/doc/tex-skak/examples directory

OK, in here I used /usr/share/doc/texlive-games/latex/skak/

> Copy all fonts files in the original mf directory (fonts/skak/mf/*)
> -> to your /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/skak directory

In here I've tryed /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/source/public/skak

> Copy all inputs files in the original tex directory (fonts/skak/tex/*)
> -> to your /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/skak directory

I've created /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/skak
(well,skak was not there)

> Copy the original fonts/skak/special.map file
> -> to your /usr/share/texmf/fontname directory as skak.map

In my case, /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/fontname

> Update the database with the texhash command.

I did it. But "latex test1.tex" got the diagrams wrong (like bad box or bad font size...)... I've tryed from texmate and it still get the wrong skak version (1.3)!
Should I create these exact directories you suggested and retry?

[]s
Júlio

Did you rename special.map as skak.map?
The install instructions I gave you were coming from the tex-skak (1.2-6) package and were assuming you were using texmf. I can see that with texmf-texlive there is a somewhat different directory structure.
Perhaps you will be better off using texlive-font-utils?

Also have a look at this page:

http://tug.org/tex-live/doc/texlive-en/live.html#x1-160003.3

There are some good tips (for instance have a look at the "Installing individual packages to disk"section).

Hope any of this can be of help.

Hi Cesare,

I could not fix it. Texmate keeps asking for skak 1.4a and saying that 1.3 is installed instead. I suppose the directory I've created (generic) is the problem. I think it is better to ask people from Ubuntu 7.04 release to pack skak 1.4a and check if it is working with texmate in texlive-games package installation.

I really appreciate your attention and will try to read a bit more to fill some of my many lacks of understanding on these texmf thing :-)

[]s
Júlio

I opened a ticket (bug #99840) in Launchpad.
I'm sorry I could not offer a better help.

Hy Cesare, someone said he had fixed the dependencies, but I still
have not checked it out.
[]s
Júlio

On Nov 15, 2007 7:38 PM, Cesare Tirabassi
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Bug #99840 status changed in texlive-extra in ubuntu:
>
> New => Confirmed
>
>
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-extra/+bug/99840
> "v1.4a of skak is required while v1.3 is in package"
>
> This bug is linked to #4430.
> I have a problem using texmate for chess editing...
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4430
>
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No, they are not fixed yet, and the debian maintainer doesn't think he will fix them any time soon.
Please check out the bug report for details.