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From: nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Fonts for chess?
Message-ID: <1909@tssi.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 91 15:06:28 GMT
References: <699@helios.prosys.se>
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ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) writes:

>Are there any PostScript typefaces suitable for chess typesetting? I
>mean any with both the figure/diagram symbols *and* the symbols used
>in publications like Informator: triangle, square, diagonal arrows,
>...

>The only one I have seen is Cheq from someone at Adobe, but that
>contained only the figures.

Zapf Dingbats, as I recall, contains symbols similar to several of the
Informant symbols, but probably not all of them.  (There are around 40
of them, as I recall.)  Perhaps some other miscellaneous/symbols fonts
contain additional ones, but I'm not aware of ANY single font that contains
all of them.

John Renner of Adobe, the creator of Cheq, has the Informant symbols and
has expressed interest in doing such a font, but hasn't had the spare time
to work on it.  

Now that Fontographer and other font utilities can create Type 1 fonts,
perhaps some public-minded netter can find the time to do this.  (If I
could justify the expense for Fontographer, I'd do it myself.)
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