user17031: I'm going through a classic book (Reti's Modern Ideas in Chess), which uses English descriptive notation rather than algebraic notation.  I see there is an online resource which has converted the book to algebraic notation, but is it possible to configure SCID to use English descriptive notation instead of the default?  Links below.
http://www.openchessbooks.org/reti-mic/chapter1/combination.html
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/
An example of the book notation is 
4. P - Q Kt 4

Which converts to the algebraic notation of
b4


user12629: I looked through the help, the menus, and the option file. I didn't see anything that looked like it could do this.
Of course, SCID is open source. If you know programming, you could always add this functionality yourself.

17031: <p>I'm going through a classic book (Reti's Modern Ideas in Chess), which uses English descriptive notation rather than algebraic notation.  I see there is an online resource which has converted the book to algebraic notation, but is it possible to configure SCID to use English descriptive notation instead of the default?  Links below.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.openchessbooks.org/reti-mic/chapter1/combination.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.openchessbooks.org/reti-mic/chapter1/combination.html</a>
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/</a></p>

<p>An example of the book notation is </p>

<pre><code>4. P - Q Kt 4
</code></pre>

<p>Which converts to the algebraic notation of</p>

<pre><code>b4
</code></pre>
 12629: <p>I looked through the help, the menus, and the option file. I didn't see anything that looked like it could do this.</p>

<p>Of course, SCID is open source. If you know programming, you could always add this functionality yourself.</p>
