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H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Oct 8, 2022 07:02 AM UTC in reply to Daniel Zacharias from 12:06 AM:

OK, I added the comma. What is worse is that it does not seem to work at all in the Samsung browser of my Android tablet. And I don't know how to debug there.

Another issue is how to handle the multi-path madness in the diagram I used as an example. I guess it is really the XBetza that sucks in this area. So perhaps I should extend XBetza with a special feature for it. Actually it doesn't really have to be an extension, just a clarification: the original Betza n modifier for non-jumping is ambiguous on oblique atoms. We could resolve that ambiguity by specifying that it stands for the set of lame moves along all geometrically shortest paths to the destination. That is, as many diagonal steps as the short dimension of the move, and the remainder orthogonal steps, permuted in any order. That would still be consistent with the meaning on orthogonal or diagonal atoms, where there would be only a single path that is geometrically shortest (i.e. where diagonal steps are considered longer than orthogonal steps). George Duke's Falcon then would simply become nCnZ.


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