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I have a question on using image names in the code argument of the Diagram Designer. The example on the page here only shows an input that uses a single letter per piece, and shows how letters correspond to images on the right. But some piece sets have many more than 26 images. Now I noticed in the URL used for the static image in Central Point Chess that it would also possible to use a piece name in braces instead of a single letter, where the case indicates the color. Like {PAWN} or {king}. But this was for the alfaeriePNG set, which uses all-lowercase names for the images. How would that work for a piece set that uses mixed case, such as Abstract? Would the DD know that it alwasy has to capitalize the first character, and use upper-case W and B prefixes in such a case? And can one mix single-letter encoding with the braces construction?
[Edit] Never mind, I think I figured it out. The use of braces is a general method for allowing multi-character piece names, but the mapping of the names on names of image files is specified by the initialization $pieces array in the sets/*.php scripts. And only in sets/ auto-*.php scripts this mapping is set from all upper- or lower-case full names to the white and black image-file names.
These scripts differ only in the setting of the $dir variable. So I can easily clone those, to make auto scripts for AlfaeriePNG, AlfaeriePNG35, XBoard, XBoard33, Abstract, Motif, MagneticPNG, Utrecht and Utrecht (Small), in which besides using the full names you can also use single-letter IDs for the orthodox pieces (and perhaps some common fairies?) in the code parameter.
Below an example of a diagram using the AlfaeriePNG set: