Most other XBoard commands are available from the menu bar. The most
frequently used commands also have shortcut keys or on-screen buttons.
+These shortcut keystrokes are mostly non-printable characters.
+Typing a letter or digit while the board window has focus
+will bring up a type-in box with the typed letter already in it.
+You can use that to type a move in siuations where it is your
+turn to enter a move,
+type a move number to call up the position after that move
+in the display,
+or, in Edit Position mode, type a FEN.
Some rarely used parameters can only be set through options on the
command line used to invoke XBoard.
XBoard) using that application's paste command. In many X
applications, such as xterm and emacs, the middle mouse button can be
used for pasting; in XBoard, you must use the Paste Position command.
+@item Copy Game List
+@cindex Copy Game List, Menu Item
+Copies the current game list to the clipboard,
+and sets the X selection to this text.
+A format of comma-separated double-quoted strings is used,
+including all tags,
+so it can be easily imported into spread-sheet programs.
@item Paste Game
@cindex Paste Game, Menu Item
Interprets the current X selection as a game record and loads it, as
@cindex General Options, Menu Item
The following items to set option values appear in the dialog
summoned by the general Options menu item.
-@itemx Always Queen
-@cindex Always Queen, Menu Item
-If this option is off, XBoard brings up a dialog
+@itemx Almost Always Queen
+@cindex Almost Always Queen, Menu Item
+If this option is on, 7th-rank pawns automatically change into
+Queens when you pick them up,
+and when you drag them to the promotion square and release them there,
+they will promote to that.
+But when you drag such a pawn backwards first,
+its identity will start to cycle through the other available pieces.
+This will continue ntil you start to move it forward;
+this will then fix the identity of the piece,
+so that you can safely put it down on the promotion square.
+If this option is off, what happens depends on the
+option @code{alwaysPromoteToQueen},
+which would force promotion to Queen when true.
+Otherwise XBoard would bring up a dialog
box whenever you move a pawn to the last rank, asking what piece
-you want to promote it to. If the option is true, your pawns are
-always promoted to queens. Your opponent can still under-promote.
-The shifted @kbd{Ctrl-Q} key is a keyboard equivalent.
+you want to promote to.
@itemx Animate Dragging
@cindex Animate Dragging, Menu Item
If Animate Dragging is on, while you are dragging a piece with the
Furthermore, a double-click on a piece that can only make a single capture
will cause that capture to be made.
Promoting a Pawn by clicking its to-square will suppress the promotion
-popup, and make it promote to Queen.
+popup or other methods for selecting an under-promotion,
+and make it promote to Queen.
@itemx Periodic Updates
@cindex Periodic Updates, Menu Item
If this option is off (or if
@cindex queen, option
@cindex alwaysPromoteToQueen, option
Sets the Always Queen menu option. @xref{Options Menu}. Default: false.
+@item -sweepPromotions true/false
+@cindex sweepPromotion, option
+Sets the Almost Always Promote to Queen menu option.
+@xref{Options Menu}. Default: false.
@item -legal/-xlegal or -testLegality true/false
@cindex legal, option
@cindex testLegality, option
black border
between squares, @code{n3} the desired size for the
clockFont, @code{n4} the desired size for the coordFont,
-@code{n5} the desired size for the default font,
+@code{n5} the desired size for the messageFont,
@code{n6} the smallLayout flag (0 or 1),
and @code{n7} the tinyLayout flag (0 or 1).
All dimensions are in pixels.
the font size, XBoard tries to choose an appropriate font for
the board size being used.
Default: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.
-@item -font font
-@cindex font, option
-@cindex Font
+@item -messageFont font
+@cindex messageFont, option
+@cindex Font, message
The font used for popup dialogs, menus, comments, etc.
If the option value is a pattern that does not specify
the font size, XBoard tries to choose an appropriate font for
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