Timeline for Does any PGN actually use the '%' (escape) or ';' (rest of line comment) mechanisms?
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| Feb 2, 2020 at 12:18 | comment | added | Remellion | Fair enough; but sensible anecdotal evidence is enough to convince me there is a use case for these tokens. And therefore that I need to parse these correctly. >.< | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 12:17 | vote | accept | Remellion | ||
| Jan 28, 2020 at 19:15 | comment | added | Ellie |
@Remellion how often cannot really be meaningfully answered as these things tend to be a question of style. Personally, I use % very frequently to add meta-information to my databases and personalize them (like the suggestions in my answer), and I also use it a lot to send commented PGN files to my students, classifying the games for them and including the question/exercise statements within the PGN file, such as: % Find the positional mistakes by white in this game. I do the same when I prepare openings for a student and do not want to over-annotate,then I use comments to discuss plans.
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| Jan 28, 2020 at 17:50 | comment | added | Remellion | I already understand how these work simply from reading the documentation. I'm more interested in how often these are used in practice -- the bit about the semicolon being rarely supported is interesting. (I'm actually preparing to write my own parser and want to know what it should conform to, then I ran into these things.) | |
| Jan 28, 2020 at 17:08 | history | answered | Ellie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |