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This repository intends to demo creation of a book featuring razor-sharp Xiangqi board setups based on LaTeX, xiangqi-setup, and (a subset of) FEN notation.

For details please see:

• GNUmakefile
• book.tex
• setups/
  • default.wxf
  • demo.wxf

Build-time Requirements

• GNU make
• Python >=3.6
• Inkscape
• LaTeX

How to Build

# make
[..]
# okular book.pdf &

FEN Notation

Example FEN, the default starting position:

rheakaehr/9/1c5c1/p1p1p1p1p/9/9/P1P1P1P1P/1C5C1/9/RHEAKAEHR w

With regard to FEN notation, the syntax rules are:

• Lowercase letters indicate pieces of the black (or blue) party (with their palace at the top of the board), uppercase letters indicate pieces of the red (or white) party (with their palace at the bottom of the board).

• The pieces are:

  • a/A — advisor
  • c/C — cannon
  • e/E/b/B — elephant
  • h/H/n/N — horse
  • k/K — king
  • p/P — pawn
  • r/R — rook

• Digits 1 (one) to 9 (nine) is the number of consecutive empty fields in a row.

• A / (slash or solidus) starts a new row.

• Suffix w or b indicates that red (or white) is to move or that black (or blue) is to move, respectively.

This is effectively the first two fields described at http://wxf.ca/xq/computer/fen.pdf plus the alternative letters used at https://www.chessdb.cn/query_en/ .