On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Am Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:35:46 -0400 (EDT) schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently a bit playing around with the idea to add some support in the (LaTeX) package "chessfss" (which handle chess fonts) for fonts loaded with the luaotfload package. As luaotfload use the context code to load the font I'm hoping that someone here can help me with some of my problems.
Chess fonts are highly unstandard. The different authors of the fonts did put the chars quite randomly in the character table and also used various glyphs name. So in the psfonts.map almost every font has its own encoding vector:
What is the unicode support for chess fonts. Are there unicode glyphs for each symbol (just like card suits, I guess)?
There are unicode code points only for a part of the symbols.
I checked the unicode list. The codepoints 0x2654 to 0x365F cover all the chess pieces. All the fonts in enpassent.dk and chessfss_gallery.pdf show only these symbols. So what is missing? I am guessing that the problem is not as simple as just mapping a font glyph to the corresponding unicode codepoint. Aditya