From: Reijer Grimbergen ETL GO JP> Date: 15 mar 2000 Subject: Re: Shogi Font Peter Banaschak T-ONLINE DE> writes: > Ahoi, Nick ! > As you may have noticed, there also is a LaTeX package for > Chinese Chess, together with a METAFONT source for the > pieces. Unfortunately, you're right that there is no Shogi, > not to mention a Shogi variations package. BTW, I'd be > insulted if you'd narrow LaTeX to Unix/Linux users alone. > There are LaTeX systems for nearly every OS imaginable (I > personally use a Mac clone). Perhaps you should be asking > this question on the comp.text.tex newsgroup... The Shogi > boards shouldn't be the problem, not even the placement of > pieces on the board, but the appropriate METAFONT sources > for the pieces might be (and it would even be better if > someone made up a PostScript Type 1 fount as well). I'll > follow that closely, as I see the advantages of a LaTeX > package as well (it would make preparing nice-looking PDFs > rather simple). And of course it's a good idea to present > just another Shogi variant in an interesting way. > Peter There is a LaTeX package for making Shogi diagrams called OhTeX, which was developed at our lab. The style file and the metafonts needed can be found at my webpage: Style file for making diagrams with Japanese coordinates: http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/suiron/~grimberg/RESEARCH/OhTeX.sty Style file for making diagrams with Western coordinates: http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/suiron/~grimberg/RESEARCH/OhTeXwes.sty The metafonts: http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/suiron/~grimberg/RESEARCH/shogi10.mf This will not be enough to make the diagrams, as you do not know how to define them with LaTeX commands (unless you want to spell out the style file). I do not have the documentation on line at the moment, but I will ask the authors for it tomorrow (they are both not in at the moment). Reijer -- Reijer Grimbergen Complex Games Lab Electrotechnical Laboratory 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305 JAPAN E-mail: grimberg etl go jp URL: http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/suiron/~grimberg/ Tel: +81-(0)298-61-3316 Fax: +81-(0)298-61-5918