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From: mwang@.com (Michael Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Fonts for chess?
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.040551.4606@oracle.com>
Date: 12 Jan 91 04:05:51 GMT
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In article <3753@cernvax.cern.ch> miotto@cernvax.cern.ch (alessandro miotto) writes:
>In article <1909@tssi.UUCP> nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan) writes:
>>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.)
>
>A few years ago I created a Mac screen font for figurine notation that
>includes all Informant symbols, and I would like to transform it into a
>Postscript font. Unfortunately I haven't got Fontographer nor I want to
>buy a program just to convert a single font.
>The font right now is of little use because is mapped to an italian keyboard,
>but I could prepare an 'international' edition if somebody volunteers to
>convert it to Postscript.
>
>	Alessandro Miotto     CERN/PPE
>	miotto@cernvax.cern.ch

If somebody is willing to send me hard copies of these symbols, I would
be willing to convert them to Macintosh PostScript fonts. I can't guarentee     
the results but I will certainly do my best. Also since I don't know
anything at all about these symbols, any background info on how these
symbols are used would be appreciated. My mailing address is:        

     Michael Wang       
     Oracle Corporation
     500 Oracle Parkway
     Redwood Shores, CA  94065

Michael Wang
mwang@oracle.com