From: Nick Bardsley ICC CO UK> Date: 14 mar 2000 Subject: Re: Shogi Font I'm no expert on Linux by any means and certainly not an expert where = the LaTeX typesetting system is concerned but I noted that it has an = extension allowing the use of chess figures. It should not be too = difficult to modify and extend that extension to produce a new one that = allows Shogi figures. I mention this as a possibility which perhaps Linux and LaTeX savvy = Shogi fans could work towards, I myself would like to produce a freely-available book exploring Wa = Shogi (which is criminally under-resourced) and intend to use LaTeX = (which idea originates from Colin Adams' use of this system to produce = his Tenjiku book and articles). My problem will be how to represent Wa pieces in a clear and attractive = fashion (because the purpose of the book would be to promote Wa by = showing how an absolute beginner can have fun with this wonderful = variant), Anyway, I haven't been much help, but I felt that the possibilities that = LaTeX offers to writers of Shogi books and articles should be flagged = up. It just needs someone to write that extension... Nick Bardsley >Tony used a scalable font called Tendo from Alpine Electronics, which contains both westernized and Japanese pieces. It comes in both TrueType and PostScript. Go to for details. >At , you can find a sample of westernized shogi pieces, that I produced with "Tendo International." I just displayed it with a large font size and Adobe Type Manager turned on (on a Mac). Then I took a screen shot and turned it into a gif file. >What is necessary is a program such as Hans Geuns's that, instead of a bitmapped graphic, uses the Tendo font and life would be bliss. I am sure it is not too difficult to let such a program produce embedded PostScript or even a set of strings that can be pasted into a word processor and to which the Tendo font style can be applied to achieve the desired result. >Ciao, >Pieter