Directory fonts/chess/skaknew
README
This directory contains enhanced type-1 versions of the popular skak fonts (for diagrams and figurine notation). Plus a special version of Eric Bentzen's ChessAlpha font for typesetting with the packages 'chessboard' and 'chessfss' by Ulrike Fischer. Copy *.pfb to texmf/fonts/type1 *.tfm to texmf/fonts/tfm *.map to texmf/dvips/config or where your system expect to find them. Package contents ======================================================================= README this file SkakNew-Diagram.afm Adobe font metrics file used to generate tfm's SkakNew-Diagram.inf font information file SkakNew-Diagram.pfb printer font binary file SkakNew-Diagram.pfm printer font metrics file SkakNew-Diagram.tfm TeX font metrics file SkakNew-DiagramT.afm Adobe font metrics file used to generate tfm's SkakNew-DiagramT.inf font information file SkakNew-DiagramT.pfb printer font binary file SkakNew-DiagramT.pfm printer font metrics file SkakNew-DiagramT.tfm TeX font metrics file SkakNew-Figurine.afm Adobe font metrics file SkakNew-Figurine.inf font information file SkakNew-Figurine.pfb printer font binary file SkakNew-Figurine.pfm printer font metrics file SkakNew-Figurine.tfm TeX font metrics file SkakNew-FigurineBold.afm Adobe font metrics file SkakNew-FigurineBold.inf font information file SkakNew-FigurineBold.pfb printer font binary file SkakNew-FigurineBold.pfm printer font metrics file SkakNew-FigurineBold.tfm TeX font metrics file AlphaDia.afm Adobe font metrics file used to generate tfm's AlphaDia.inf font information file AlphaDia.pfb printer font binary file AlphaDia.pfm printer font metrics file AlphaDia.tfm TeX font metrics file SkakNew.map font mapping file for pdftex or dvips SkakNew.pdf documentation/installation guide SkakNew.tex documentation/installation guide source fonttables.pdf Font table showing all chars install.vtex installation instructions for VTeX SkakNew.ali needed by VTeX Please read install.vtex for installation instructions for VTeX. The files have been made available by Walter Schmidt. Changes: ======== February 2009 ------------- New versions of all fonts with small corrections. OpenType versions. January 2008 ------------ Added AlphaDia.* New versions of Skak-Diagram*.* (technical clean-up) May 2006 -------- This is version 1.3 of SkakNew-Diagram and SkakNew-DiagramT. I have added some character 'masks' for use with the new version of chessfss and chessboard by Ulrike Fischer. Their main task is for separately colouring borders, fields, character outlines, and character inlines. For more information see the documentation of the resp. styles. PDFs showing the font layout are supplied.
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (490.4k).
SkakNew – The skak chess fonts redone in Adobe Type 1
This package offers Adobe Type 1 versions of the fonts provided as METAFONT source by the skak bundle.
Package | SkakNew |
Home page | http://www.art-satz.de/portfolio/schriften.html |
Version | 2009-02-13 |
Licenses | The LaTeX Project Public License |
Maintainer | Ulrich Dirr |
Contained in | TeX Live as skaknew MiKTeX as skaknew |
Topics | Font Chess Font Font Type1 Games |