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Scid Help:
Exporting games
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<h1>Exporting games</h1>
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You can use commands under the <b><font color="#007000">[Tools]</font></b> menu to export the current
game or all games in the current filter to a text file.
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Three text file formats are available: <a href="PGN.html">PGN</a> (portable game
notation), HTML (for web pages) and LaTeX (a popular typesetting system).
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When exporting, you can choose to create a new file, or add the games to
an existing file of games exported by Scid.
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<h3>Diagrams</h3>
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When exporting in HTML or LaTeX format, Scid will automatically add a
diagram wherever a diagram <a href="NAGs.html">nag</a> ("D") or a <a href="Comment.html">comment</a>
that starts with the character "#" appears in the game.
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<h3><a name="Null">Null moves in PGN Export</a></h3>
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Scid allows <a href="Annotating.html\#Null">null (empty) moves</a> to be stored in
games, as they can be helpful when annotating games using variations.
However, the PGN standard has no null move concept. So if you export
Scid games with null moves to a PGN file, other PGN-reading software
will not be able to read the null moves.
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To solve this problem, Scid provides an extra option,
<b>Convert null moves to comments</b>, when exporting games in PGN format.
If you want to create a PGN file that other software can use, turn this
option on and variations containing null moves will be converted to
comments. However, if you want to create a PGN file that can be imported
back into Scid later with null moves preserved, leave the option off.
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<h3>HTML Export</h3>
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Scid can export games to an HTML file. For diagrams to appear, you will
need the diagram images (distributed with Scid in the directory
"<b>bitmaps/</b>") to be in a subdirectory <b>bitmaps/</b> under the
directory the HTML file is in.
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<h3>LaTeX Export</h3>
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Scid can export games to a LaTeX file.
Games be printed two columns to a page and moves are in
figurine algebraic notation.
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See the <a href="LaTeX.html">Using LaTeX with Scid</a> help page for more information.
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<p><center><font size=-1>(Updated: Scid 3.4, July 2002)</font></center></p>
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