Format: FEN (chess board game related)

[toolonely]

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• This is a enhancement/feature request. Not a bug or question.
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Description

I would like Markor to become FEN-aware.

Something a la https://python-chess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/svg.html#chess.svg.board would be nice, as in whenever a document contains a FEN string, Markor could detect it and render a chess board image that is displayed. However, I imagine this would require adding more chess related library dependencies and shift Makor's focus from a general purpose text editor (albeit it already supports multiple niche things other than plain text / markdown format, most notable probably being todo.txt).

I'd be happy with Markor just detecting a FEN string, displaying it as link and letting me open it via sharing in a chess app (configured through Markor's settings) that is FEN aware, DroidFish for example.

Information

Android version: MIUI

Source

F-Droid

Format / File type

Something else (-> Additional info)

Additional info / Log

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[harshad1]

I think this is niche and outside markor's scope.

Your best bet is to include the Fen string in a formatted link. Automatically detecting it is too hard and prone to errors.

[gsantner]

I would be open to add i.e. a .js file which does the rendering of FEN in whatever way in View-Mode. However I'm not really keen on adding a full format for this (no own file format option, no own highlighting, no own format classes etc).

[toolonely]

@gsantner

Something like this?

https://github.com/andyruwruw/chess-image-generator

[gsantner]

Looks like! Not sure about dependencies and if you can easy make it i.e. one javascript file.

[toolonely]

I don't know what this action means, but to avoid misunderstandings, I have to say that that this feature request is from a pure end user perspective, thus doesn't imply any technical commitments due to my incompetence. I am trying to find a way to visualize FEN strings in vim on desktop and I made this suggestion hoping that oneday I'll be able to use my chess notes in Markor as well on Android.