Latex Export

[mariusroets]

I am creating a publication from PGN by converting to Latex. I have managed to accomplish the task by extending chess.pgn.StringExporter and reimplementing where needed. My question to the developer(s) is: would you be interested in merging this in python-chess?

My second question is that I was not sure what was the best way to do this. I extended StringExporter, but it is also possible to extend StringExporterMixin and BaseVisitor (like StringExporter does), or to create a LatexExporterMixin, and extend that together with BaseVisitor.

Many of my PGN games have comments before the first move of the mainline. Does the package support that?

[niklasf]

Hi, I am hesitant, because there are so many different ways to typeset a game, and likely everyone would want something slightly different.

The hierarchy of the exporter classes doesn't matter much. The point of StringExporterMixin is that it doesn't determine the T in BaseVisitor[T], but that only matters when using type hints, and when you want something other than str.

Many of my PGN games have comments before the first move of the mainline. Does the package support that?

Yes, for game = chess.pgn.Game() that would be game.comment.