<ul><li>
<a href="#tag-A5">Running EPD test suites</a>
</li><li>
-<a href="#tag-A6">Getting instant help</a>
+<a href="#tag-A6">Getting instant help (XB)</a>
</li><li>
-<a href="#tag-A7">Use mouse wheel to set up position</a>
+<a href="#tag-A16">Editing castling rights in a position</a>
+</li><li>
+<a href="#tag-A7">Use mouse wheel to set up position (XB)</a>
</li><li>
<a href="#tag-A8">Allow engine to pop up its settings dialog</a>
</li><li>
-<a href="#tag-A9">Specifying ultra-fast games</a>
+<a href="#tag-A9">Specifying ultra-fast games (XB)</a>
</li><li>
-<a href="#tag-A10">Installing board themes from packages</a>
+<a href="#tag-A10">Installing board themes from packages (XB)</a>
</li><li>
<a href="#tag-A11">Using a single-button mouse</a>
</li><li>
<a href="#tag-A12">A special directory for start positions</a>
</li><li>
-<a href="#tag-A13">Allow terminal-less ICS play</a>
+<a href="#tag-A13">Allow terminal-less ICS play (XB)</a>
</li><li>
<a href="#tag-A14">Sound warnings in analysis mode</a>
</li><li>
-<a href="#tag-A15">Changing fonts through the GUI</a>
+<a href="#tag-A15">Changing fonts through the GUI (XB)</a>
</li><li>
-<a href="#tag-A16">Editing castling rights in a position</a>
+<a href="#tag-A17">Automatic adapting of fonts to board size (XB)</a>
</li></ul>
</td><td>
In that case clicking over an empty square will behave like it was a right-click,
and will create a piece in that square.
Clicking over an occupied square will select or grab the piece,
-as usual for left-clocks.
+as usual for left-clicks.
</p>
<h3><a name="tag-A12">Your favorite starting positions</a></h3>
<p>
A new option <b>-positionDir</b> can force the file-selector dialog that pops up in response to Load Position
to start browsing in the specified directory, rather than in the current directory.
-This can be useful whan you have a fvorite set of positions from which you often start games,
+This can be useful when you have a favorite set of positions from which you often start games,
e.g. for several material-odds positions.
</p>
and prevents you from recalling it with the arrow keys.
</p>
-<h3><a name="tag-A13">Controlling castling and e.p. rights in Edit Position mode</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="tag-A16">Controlling castling and e.p. rights in Edit Position mode</a></h3>
<img src="Rights.png" style="float:right; margin:20px">
<p>
XBoard has long since been made castling-aware, but the castling rights could only be fully controlled by pasting a FEN.
use a figurine font where mostly moves are displayed (Engine Output or Move History), etc.
</p>
+<h3><a name="tag-A17">Persistent sizing and font selection in XBoard's GTK build</a></h3>
+<p>
+Sizing the window now not only affects the board part of XBoard's main window,
+but also the fonts chosen in clocks and message above the board, making the clock and message area size too.
+(Just like WinBoard has always been doing.)
+This also makes it possible to size the board much smaller than it initial size,
+as the default fonts get smaller as the board shrinks.
+This eventually makes the board look just as it would look when you would start it in the final size.
+This consistent board size is now saved in the settings file,
+so that next time you will indeed start up with almost the same board as the sized one
+(except some rounding of the square size to one of the 18 standard sizes).
+</p><p>
+For the fonts in other windows it is not so obvious that you want them to change when the board window is resized,
+although the default fonts for these windows does depend on board size.
+Therefore a more subtle algorithm is used for those:
+XBoard keeps track of whether the font used for each size is the default for that size,
+or a font that once was defined by the user through a command-line option or the Fonts dialog,
+(and possibly transfered through the settings file).
+Such non-default fonts will then be adhered to after sizing the board window
+when no explicitly specified font for the new size did exist yet.
+Meaning that you would only have to select a new font for each window once,
+after which it will be kept no matter how you size the board.
+Unless you take explicit action to select a separate font for each board size.
+</p>
+
<h3><a name="tag-A14">Making a sound during analysis</a></h3>
<p>
The move sound can now also be played when a new PV arrives in Analyze mode
In addition there is a new 'fall-back' rule for missing piece images in a user-defined <b>-pieceImageDirectory</b>:
XBoard will first try to find an image called White/BlackTile.svg before using the piece image from the default theme.
</p><p>
-Together, this can be used for on-the-fly reation of Shogi themes.
+Together, this can be used for on-the-fly creation of Shogi themes.
One just provides an image of a blank tile of average size as the Tile.svg image,
and no image for all pieces that are intended to use this.
-(For pieces like Pawn and King that need different tile size, you an still include dediated images.)
-The -insrciptions argument then indicates what kanji should be written on which piece.
+(For pieces like Pawn and King that need different tile size, you can still include dedicated images.)
+The -inscriptions argument then indicates what kanji should be written on which piece.
The kanji are written in red when the piece was defined as a promoted one,
and rendered upside-down for the side playing downward when pieces are flipped Shogi style.
</p>
Fix crashing of Xaw build in ICS-zippy mode when opponent kibitzes and chat window is open.
</li>
<li>
- Fix spurious undo at start of ICS game in zippy mode imediately after previous game was resigned.
+ Fix spurious undo at start of ICS game in zippy mode immediately after previous game was resigned.
</li>
<li>
Fix width of secondary board (for ICS background observe) in the GTK build.
Logout from ICS after engine failure in zippy mode.
</li>
<li>
- Prevent Fix bell character from being printed in ICS Console window.
+ Prevent bell character from being printed in ICS Console window.
</li>
<li><b>Variants</b></li>
<li>
The GUI book code can now handle up to 48 (unpromoted) piece types, and boards up to 256 squares.
</li>
<li>
- Allow promotion choice in variant ASEAN (to support this rule change).
+ Allow promotion choice in variant ASEAN (to support the corresponding rule change).
</li>
<li>
- Fix bare-king adjudication correction for Atomic, where a bare King is beats an exploded one.
+ Fix bare-king adjudication correction for Atomic, where a bare King beats an exploded one.
</li>
<li>
Fix pasting of moves immediately after starting from position file.
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