---
name: "pgn2web"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pgn2web"
version: "0.4-3.1+b4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pgn2web"
---

# pgn2web(1)

program to convert PGN chess files to webpages

## NAME

pgn2web - program to convert PGN chess files to webpages

## SYNOPSIS

**pgn2web** \[*options*\] *pgn-file*  html-file \
 **p2wgui -- graphical frontend to pgn2web**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the **pgn2web** and **p2wgui** commands.

**pgn2web** is a program to generate webpages from "portable game notation"\
  PGN files, that allow the replaying of chess games within a web\
  browser. It has a commandline client and a gtk graphical user interface\
  for convenience. The html output is highly customisable, it is using\
  javascript and is standards compliant to be working with all major\
  browsers.

## OPTIONS

These programs do follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with short options starting with one dash (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- **-c yes\|no**

  include a link to the pgn2web homepage.

- **-p \<piece-set\>**

  use the \<piece-set\> pieceset. Available sets are: adventurer  alfonso-x  cases  condal  harlequin  kingdom  leipzig  line  lucena  magnetic  mark  marroquin  maya  mediaeval  merida  motif

- **-s frameset\|linked\|individual**

  use the specified layout.

- Passing no parameters at all will simply launch the GUI version.

  ## SEE ALSO

**/usr/share/pgn2web/templates,**\

## AUTHOR

pgn2web was written by William Hoggarth \<whoggarth@users.sourceforge.net\>.

This manual page was written by Oliver Korff \<ok@xynyx.de\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).