On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 01:40:08AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Both a friend and I organize weekly online bridge games for 20-30 players. My seating notices go out as simple text. He
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I don't like the attachment approach but the formatting (minimal, bold, alignment,?) he uses and the 2 column arrangement would be useful.
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Is there anything I could use to create such "formated text", then distribute it in the body of a mutt message having some hope that the recipients see it correctly?
I know nothing about bridge, but years ago, when there was such a thing as a newspaper, I always looked at the chess column, which appeared on the same page as the bridge column. The chess column typically presented a puzzle, in the form of a graphical diagram. I seem to recall seeing something similar in the bridge column. As I recall, there is a LaTeX package for drawing a chess diagram, so I would expect there also is a LaTeX package for drawing a bridge diagram. Also, the chess community long ago developed a simple standard called "Portable Game Notation" (PGN) which facilitates postal-chess-via-email as well as capture, transmittal, and analysis of games, either in-progress or complete. Computer chess packages typically read and write PGN files, some even automatically extract PGN from email messages. Again, I would expect something of the sort exists for the bridge community. RLH
