I've recently started learning TSH and used it to the Durham tournament
here in the UK, a 91-player 11-round tournament which forms one of the
main events on our calendar. With a mixture of Swiss and RR groups it
was a good chance to learn the basics and I'm now feeling comfortable
with most aspects of TSH, enough to be using it again at a 70-player
one-day event this Saturday.

I've emailed John with some random points and queries but thought I'd
share some more with the group, in case others benefit at all. Some of
these are aimed mainly at John, others are more general queries. I am
eventually planning to write an Idiot's Guide to running events using
the program; it will be UK-oriented but others are welcome to use any
part of it when it's done.

1) The term "sprintf(3)" from the manual will be completely lost on most
people, I couldn't even get a straight definition from the web. I was
looking to see if there is any way to get names to display in standings
and pairings as Stewart Holden rather than Holden, Stewart. Is that what
this does, and if so can we have a user-friendly simple way of making it
happen?

name_format = "%-22s" Specify sprintf(3) formatting of player names.

... fascinating but I haven't got a clue what it means!

2) The Help file example for tables is tables{'A'} = [1,1,2,2,3,3,] -
why is each number in here twice? Is this the reason some of the table
numbers were missing on the "sdsc" printouts I gave to players at
Durham? Is there any way to avoid the need to give each number twice?

3) Some UK events are starting to use scores as well as just spread (at
last). Thus if the config line entry="absp" could be changed to
entry="spread" it would be more accurate.

4) In the Pairings section of the help file, the example for Swiss
Pairings is given but the command line shown is "koth 2 17 c" - is this
a typo?

5) 'missing' by division as well as round would definitely be useful.

6) How do I get TSH to open up with an older tournament, not just the
most recent config.tsh in the most recent directory?

No doubt more as I can think of it! Thanks in advance.

Stewart