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Scid Help: 
Options
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<h1>Options and preferences</h1>
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Many Scid options and preferences (such as the board size, colors, fonts,
and default settings) are adjustable from the <b><font color="#007000">[Options]</font></b> menu.
All these (and more, such as the last directory you loaded a database from
and the sizes of some windows) are saved to an options file when
you select <b>Save Options</b> from the Options menu.
The options file is loaded whenever you start Scid.
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If you use Windows, the options file is <b>scid.opt</b> in the directory
where the Scid program file <b>scid.exe</b> is located. For users of Unix
operating systems (such as Solaris or Linux) the file
is <b>~/.scid/scidrc</b>.
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<h3><a name="MyPlayerNames">Setting your player names</a></h3>
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There may be a player name (or several names) for whom, whenever a game
is loaded, you would like the main window chessboard to be displayed from
the perspective of that player. You can configure a list of such names
using <b>My Player Names...</b> from the <b><font color="#007000">[Options/Chessboard]</font></b>
menu. In the dialog box that appears, enter one player name on each line.
Wildcard characters ("<b>?</b>" for exactly one character and "<b>*</b>"
for a sequence of zero or more characters) can be used.
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<h3><a name="Fonts">Setting Fonts</a></h3>
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Scid has three basic fonts it uses in most of its windows, and you can
customize all of them. They are called <b>regular</b>, <b>small</b> and
<b>fixed</b>.
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The fixed font should be a fixed-width (not proportional) font. It is used
for the <a href="Tree.html">tree</a> and <a href="Crosstable.html">crosstable</a> windows.
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<p><center><font size=-1>(Updated: Scid 3.5, February 2003)</font></center></p>

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