Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

[Michael Everson]

On 6 Apr 2017, at 01:53, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14 at telia.com> wrote:
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>> Oh, you misunderstood me. I knew it was raw HTML. I didn¹t expect it to render. But it was meaningless code.
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> It was a response to Marcus, in that HTML might be used (with existing characters and no VSs) to format chess boards. And he is right, as proven by the HTML code I (basically) copied from stackoverflow.

Yes, I know this of course. (Well, whatever stackoverflow is.)

> And it does typeset better plain text chess boards à la your proposal…

Not with ordinary fonts and Unicode characters. And typographic care.