PGN generation
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Aug 24, 2015
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Use Notepad or Wordpad, or some other simple text editor. If you save as rtf, you should be able to manually change the file extension to pgn
It is interesting that I have the opposite problem. I'm writing a chess GUI and I also hit upon the problem of multiple PGN files but the other way round.
I think multiple game PGN files are relic of the past. One PGN file should contain one game. If you have a bunch of them there are all the tools to manage directories independently of chess applications, you can zip them together with a click, you can do with them what you want.
When a chess GUI offers functionality for manipulating multiple game PGNs, it really takes over the responsibilites of a file system. Unnecessarily duplicates functionality.
My solution is that whenever my program has to open a multiple game PGN, it splits it to single game PGNs and stores them in a directory bearing the name of the original PGN file. When you want to open a game from this PGN now you can use the file chooser function of the file system.
My clipboard currently contains the text of over 400 games taken from .pgn files. I want to create one large .pgn file, but using text editors like word and pages won't let me save in .pgn. In addition renaming the file has not worked because of formatting/white-space issues. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Cheers,
JWILD