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Kevin Pacey wrote on Sat, Dec 19, 2015 10:56 PM UTC:
H.G. wrote:

"BTW, did you just place the text string the generator gave you in a non-HTML submission, or did you have to tick 'Using HTML tags' to make it accept the diagram?"

Being tech-challenged these days, my attempt to describe what I did would be:

I went to edit my Sac Chess submission, then in doing so noticed that just above the 'Setup' box (i.e. to show the starting position for a chess variant) there now exists a sentence that mentions the Diagram Designer. I then clicked (on its blue highlighted words) "Diagram Designer" and a new window opened up, i.e. that of the Diagram Designer. Perhaps it wasn't quite obvious to a newbie how to use it even in a minimal way, but its board shape setting happened to be for a "Square" shape (since the Diagram Designer by default was for standard chess). I tried setting "Columns" = 10 and the square board increased from 8x8 to 10x10, still showing the 32 chess pieces. 

I happened to decide to click on some hignlighted words for a setting ("Next Rank", I think), and revealed to me by a new window was a long documentation. This was actually useful enough to me in a way (with my minimal desire, i.e. to at least initially find any possible quick & dirty way to make a better diagram for my Sac Chess submission), because it finally dawned on me that the 26 characters of the alphabet each represent an available chess or fairy piece type in the given set (abstract pieces), and a character is to be used as part of the FEN string. After closing this window, I saw that the FEN string default was indeed for chess, and I could quickly tell how to use the FEN string for Sac Chess pieces (and its empty squares) instead. The slight difficulty after that was deciding which letters of the alphabet corresponded to desired Sac Chess pieces, though I eventually decided to use the standard chess piece abstract figures as a sort of theme I carried over when I decided on the letters of the alphabet to represent other (fairy chess) pieces in Sac Chess in the FEN string. 

At any time I could click on an "Update" button and the Diagram Designer would show the latest version of the board, with the pieces on it. When I had finished, I knew there was a box in the Diagram Designer that contains a brief code (it described it as HTML code), and the final code corresponded to the work I had done with the Diagram Designer. The instructions above this box said to simply copy the contents of the box to my Chess Variants webpage, so I copied the contents as the first step of a quick cut & paste. I closed the Diagram Designer window, i.e. returning to my submission webpage that I was editing. I then did the pasting of the Diagram Designer code into the "Setup" box of my submission webpage, which simply showed the text of the code as a result (I had before now deleted my old version of a Setup diagram that wasn't up to snuff). After I submitted this edited version of my Sac Chess submission, now whenever I look at the new version of it, the Diagram Designer diagram I specified actually shows up on my screen.

Edit: I've identified the squares pieces are on (by text) in my Sac Chess setup diagram now.

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