One could, instead of the old | system, use a compound with one piece inverted (though it's actually the second piece that's affected, not the first). For example, for a charging rook.
And that turns out to be not such a great solution after all. It works fine for a piece illustration such as the above, but there's not really a way to implement that for an Interactive Diagram or anything else that appends a prefix. So, something else will have to be figured out. (Maybe an asterisk could be a wildcard for the color prefix, so _*rook becomes an inverted Rook? I have no idea whether that or anything like it would actually work; I'm just throwing out ideas.)
But like I said previously, there's no rush. My first time actually using such pieces will be for the Spears Expansion in Dealer's Chess, which won't be introduced to Game Courier until I do the 10x10 version; I'll have to finish the 8x8 version first, and that could take quite a while.
And that turns out to be not such a great solution after all. It works fine for a piece illustration such as the above, but there's not really a way to implement that for an Interactive Diagram or anything else that appends a prefix. So, something else will have to be figured out. (Maybe an asterisk could be a wildcard for the color prefix, so
_*rookbecomes an inverted Rook? I have no idea whether that or anything like it would actually work; I'm just throwing out ideas.)But like I said previously, there's no rush. My first time actually using such pieces will be for the Spears Expansion in Dealer's Chess, which won't be introduced to Game Courier until I do the 10x10 version; I'll have to finish the 8x8 version first, and that could take quite a while.