Introduction

There are several utity tools for writing bridge articles

Key features (beta release)

• support xinrui url, bbo lin url (bbo soon)
• generate well tuned latex/html bridge layout (card diagram)
• generate all kinds of ebook (.pdf/.mobi/.epub/.html/.latex) with related toolchains (pandoc,multimarkdown)

It contains several subpackage

• xin2pbn
• pbn2html
• mdbridge (mdbridge2latex, mdbrdige2html)

Install

pip install bridge-utils

modules

xin2pbn

xinrui bridge online url to pbn converter

xinrui url looks like this, it can be converted to standard pbn files output.pbn

Usage

pip install xin2pbn
xin2pbn "url"
xin2pbn "local.html"

example

$ xin2pbn "http://www.xinruibridge.com/deallog/DealLog.html?bidlog=P%3BP,1S,X,2S%3BP,P,X,P%3B3C,P,4C,P%3B5C,P,P,P%3B&playlog=W:TH,KH,AH,4H%3BE:TS,KS,AS,6C%3BN:3H,2H,9H,8H%3BS:TD,KD,AD,7D%3BN:3D,9D,2C,2D%3BS:3C,4C,TC,5C%3BN:6D,5D,QC,4D%3BS:7C,KC,AC,8C%3BN:&deal=T96.A62.J975.985%20KQ832.954.T.Q732%20AJ754.T8.K842.K4%20.KQJ73.AQ63.AJT6&vul=NS&dealer=E&contract=5C&declarer=S&wintrick=12&score=620&str=%E7%BE%A4%E7%BB%84IMP%E8%B5%9B%2020201121%20%E7%89%8C%E5%8F%B7%202/8&dealid=984602529&pbnid=344008254"
write to file output.pbn
write to file output.html

$ curl -O https://isoliu.gitlab.io/book2020/web/1-chapter2-B01-zdjs.html
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  5054  100  5054    0     0  11512      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 11512
$ xin2pbn 1-chapter2-B01-zdjs.html
[b'https://isoliu.gitlab.io/deallog/DealLog.html?bidlog=1D,1S,P;2D,3C,P,P;4S,P,P,X;P,P,P&playlog=E:5D,KD,2D,6D;S:3H,5H,8H,7H;N:8S,TS,AS,3D;S:4C,KC,3C,2C;W:8D,7D,2S,9D;E:8C,JC,AC,5C;W:QD,TH,5S,4D;E:6H,9H,KH,AH;N:&deal=.K5.QJT832.AK976%20KQ874.AT8.76.Q53%20JT652.7642.5.T82%20A93.QJ93.AK94.J4&vul=All&dealer=W&contract=4SX&declarer=N&wintrick=9&score=-200&str=%E9%94%A6%E6%A0%87%E8%B5%9B%20%E7%AC%AC12%E8%BD%AE%20%E7%89%8C%E5%8F%B7%204/12&dealid=653117488&pbnid=127397878', b'https://isoliu.gitlab.io/deallog/DealLog.html?bidlog=1D,1S,P;2D,3C,P,P;4S,P,P,X;P,P,P&playlog=E:5D,AD,2D,6D;S:QH,KH,AH,7H;N:KS,2S,3S,3D;N:4S,TS,AS,8D;S:3H,5H,8H,2H;N:TH,6H,JH,7C;S:9H,6C,7D,4H;S:4C,KC,3C,2C;W:AC,5C,8C,JC;W:QD,QS,TC,4D;N:&deal=.K5.QJT832.AK976%20KQ874.AT8.76.Q53%20JT652.7642.5.T82%20A93.QJ93.AK94.J4&vul=All&dealer=W&contract=4SX&declarer=N&wintrick=10&score=790&str=%E9%94%A6%E6%A0%87%E8%B5%9B%20%E7%AC%AC12%E8%BD%AE%20%E7%89%8C%E5%8F%B7%204/12&dealid=653247876&pbnid=127397878']
write to file ./1-chapter2-B01-zdjs-01.pbn
write to file ./1-chapter2-B01-zdjs-02.pbn

$ cat 1-cha*.pbn > all.pbn

Open output.html can browse the playing log locally

snapshot

original source in xinrui UI

The outputed pbn can be viewed inside bridgecomposer & pbnjview

Other use cases

Use case 1: for student newsletter

This is for http://xrgopher.gitee.io/studentbridge

zyj-update README.txt

Using README.txt, all the materials are combined into README.md with xinrui links, then generate HTMLs

zyj-convert README.md

Then README.html and README.pbn.html are generated

Use case 2: mdbridge - Article Samples

• Ramsey's article for xinrui bridge (Chinese), see ramsey.md and ramsey.pdf

You need install MulitMarkdown first

How to use it

Generally, follow below steps

• write it in special format with markdown
• use mdbridge tool to generate intermediate markdown file
• use multimarkdown or pandoc to generate related format files
• generate final ebook

See below for latex

$ mdbrdige2latex sample # download sample files ramsey.md, meta.txt
$ mdbridge2latex ramsey.md
ramsey.bridge-tex is created
$ multimarkdown -t latex meta.txt ramsey.bridge-tex -o ramsey.tex
$ xelatex ramsey.tex # use overleaf if u don't have latex env.

Then you can edit the file in overleaf like ramsey.tex@overleaf.com

See below for html

$ mdbridge2html ramsey.md
processing ramsey.md -> ramsey.bridge
write to file interesting.pbn
write to file interesting.pbn
$ multimarkdown.exe  -t html ramsey.bridge -o ramsey.html

Usage in detail

markdown format

define the deal from url first

http://www.xinruibridge.com/deallog/DealLog.html?bidlog=P,2N,P%3B3C,P,3N,P%3B6N,P,P,P%3B&playlog=E:KD,3D,4D,JD%3BE:2D,5D,7D,AD%3BN:JS,6S,5S,8S%3BN:KS,4S,7S,2S%3BN:3S,TS,AS,8H%3BS:QS,TD,4C,9S%3BS:KH,JH,4H,2H%3BS:AH,TH,9H,3H%3BS:QH,9D,8C,5H%3BS:2C,JC,QC,6C%3BN:KC,9C,6D,5C%3BN:AC,7H,6H,3C%3BN:7C,QD,8D,TC%3B&deal=82.JT8.T974.JT53%20KJ3.94.AJ.AKQ874%20T964.7532.KQ2.96%20AQ75.AKQ6.8653.2&vul=All&dealer=W&contract=6N&declarer=N&wintrick=11&score=-100&str=%E7%BE%A4%E7%BB%84IMP%E8%B5%9B%2020201209%20%E7%89%8C%E5%8F%B7%204/8&dealid=995050099&pbnid=345464272
auction

customize the deal

deal|cards=NS|ul="<str>"|ll=<str>|ur=<str>

Two-Hand Diagram

deal|cards=NS

All-Hands Diagram

deal

Partial deal

deal=.xxxx..xxx&.T4.A.AK87&-&.AKQ6.865.

Partial deal with extra information

deal=.xxxx..xxx&.94.A.AK87&-&.AKQ6.865.|ll="NS 4/12&EW 0"|ur="match 4/8"

Collaborator

• Ramsey @ xinrui : mainly for latex template and tune the card diagrams

Reference

• http://www.rpbridge.net/7z69.htm