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Diagram Editor with scalable graphics. An easy-to-use tool for drawing boards and pieces of any size and color.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Nov 22, 2023 05:45 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from 05:11 PM:

The original function of the renderer was to produce whole-board images from a FEN. (Hence its name...) In FENs digits are reserved for indicating a number of empty squares on a rank. And an extra option could at best apply to all the pieces in the FEN, rather than being selective. And if we have something that works in FENs, we might as well use it for rendering individual pieces as well.

To be frank, I don't really consider rotated pieces very important. The whole idea one should do this is a legacy from the days that there were only 6 glyphs for chess pieces, to represent a multitude of fairy pieces. But today we have Alfaerie. I just implemented the rotation because Alfaerie had some rotated glyphs, and it seemed nice to be able to also render these antialiased without having to make separate SVG for them. And it was easy to do.

I think the $ is still available. So I will use that as an alternative for <.