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From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Postscript chess board and pieces wanted
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Date: 29 Apr 88 19:47:21 GMT
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Reply-To: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.
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I also have a chess font, with characters for each of the
pieces in all four (piece colour, square colour) combinations.
There are also some pieces to go around the edge to make a
frame.

For good measure, I have the necessary stuff to make it into a
ditroff font and connect it to TranScript, so that you can have
chessboards etc in ditroff, even without psfig :-)

A typical board is described as

0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
7 r o . : k : . u 3
7 s b s p : p s . 3
7 . s . : p t . s 3
7 : . : . : . : . 3
7 . c . S P : . : 3
7 : . O B : N : . 3
7 P S P T . S P S 3
7 U . : . L . : R 3
6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4

where the coding is conventional, except that the letters move
along one to indicate a black background square (k->l, b->c and
so on, with some kludge for p, q and r). The characters are
described as outlines and the black squares are indicated by
cross-hatching. Note that space is a zero-width character.

THE OFFER: if someone can send me good descriptions for
draughts pieces as PostScript outlines, then I will incorporate
those and mail the whole lot to comp.sources

(I know draughts pieces are only boring, circular things, but I
want a nice looking king/emperor piece and haven't got the time
to work on it myself).
-- 

William Roberts         ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk  (gw: cs.ucl.edu)
Queen Mary College      UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP
LONDON, UK              Tel:  01-975 5250