[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier
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       Show HN: Pretty-print your chess games using Prettier
        
       Hi,  As an enthusiast chess player, I like to manage my games and
       my opening repertoire as a set of PGN files stored in a Git
       repository (PGN is a text file format for recording chess games).
       So I wanted a way to pretty-print PGN files using a CLI and
       integrating in my editor.  Today, it looks like most people use
       GUI-based software. So I decided to create a Prettier plugin that
       formats PGN files. Prettier is a well-known pretty-printer in the
       Node.js ecosystem, used to ensure consistent source code formatting
       in software projects. One upside of implementing this PGN formatter
       as a Prettier plugin is that it benefits from its editor
       integration.  The plugin is currently near complete, even if the
       project is still at an early stage. It's usable, even if there
       might be some bugs.  Hope you find this useful. Comments and ideas
       are welcome. Have a nice weekend.
        
       Author : gmasclet
       Score  : 69 points
       Date   : 2025-01-04 14:37 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | galleywest200 wrote:
       | I was actually thinking of developing something similar to make
       | it easier to copy my chess game review comments into my Obsidian
       | notes.
       | 
       | Thank you!
        
         | gmasclet wrote:
         | You're welcome!
         | 
         | By the way, something I've considered but not implemented yet
         | are options to tweak the formatting (for instance, whether to
         | indent or inline comments / variations). The Prettier approach
         | is to be opinionated, but some language-specific options may be
         | useful.
        
       | tacone wrote:
       | What about using a fenced code block?
        
         | thangngoc89 wrote:
         | You mean inside markdown? Prettier supported that since 2017
         | [1], it will call the individual plugins to handle content
         | inside the code blocks.
         | 
         | [1]: https://prettier.io/blog/2017/11/07/1.8.0.html
        
       | toolslive wrote:
       | PGN is just a format to communicate the games. So pgn pretty-
       | printing is at the same level as pretty printing json. Nothing
       | wrong with that, but at some point you might want to publish a
       | game with diagrams variations, ....
       | 
       | For that purpose, you can use Latex (yes, I know, not everybody's
       | cup of tea)
       | 
       | https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Chess_notation
        
         | andix wrote:
         | This looks a bit cumbersome to write to me.
         | 
         | I really like the JS preview/rendering plugins for fenced code
         | blocks in Markdown. For example Mermaid, which is supported by
         | many Markdown renderers or IDEs. [1]
         | 
         | It would be fun to have something like this for chess notation,
         | that interactively renders the last position with forward and
         | back buttons.
         | 
         | Static PDFs are mostly a thing of the past.
         | 
         | [1]: https://github.blog/developer-skills/github/include-
         | diagrams...
        
         | gmasclet wrote:
         | Thanks for the idea, I'd not considered it. LaTex may have some
         | use, I'll take a look. Indeed, probably the best solution to
         | publish a game with diagrams.
         | 
         | For personal notes, I would also consider embedding PGN into
         | Markdown. Sadly, PGN rendering in Markdown isn't supported yet,
         | as far as I know (something like Mermaid would be awesome).
        
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