From: Jarl Ove Staurnes <jos <at> TANDBERG <dot> NO>
Date: 3 apr 2000
Subject: Re: Shogi Fonts

Jean-Louis Cazaux writes:

> Hi, I'm looking for a Shogi font. Does anybody know where I can get
> one, possibly free ?  Thanks.

For what it's worth, I've put up my so called "Free Shogi typesetting
package" on <URL://http://www.geocities.com/jostaurnes/>. It's not
much of a package as it is barely half finished. Though it contains a
shogi symbol fonts (postscipt Type-1). Be warned, the artistic quality
is low! (I've drawn it myself, and am not a graphical artist at all).

Also with the font (and the reason for the font) there is a postscript
procset for drawing/producing a shogi board figure for inclusion in
any EPS capable program.  This procset should be very easy to
incorporate/embed into any shogi viewing/editing program for producing
an EPS print-out of a given position.

(Also, the font is with *.gsf suffix, meaning ghostscript fontset. Im
not sure how it will intergrate with Adobe programs. Though the script
is perfectly legal PostScript and should be valid for any conforming
postscript interpreter.)

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Jarl Ove Staurnes
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