Re: Typesetting chess boards

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Maurício wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > What is the easiest way to
>> > include chess boards in a
>> > Context document?
>>
>> Chessboards or chessboards with figures?
>
> Chessboards with figures (actually,
> chess studies sets).

Nobody has written a package for that yet, but if you are patient,
it's easy enough that people will be ready to help you. All you need
is some basic metapost (or tables) or TikZ + a suitable font. And
exact specification how you would like the package to work (the form
of input, what options you need, ...).

If you are ready to wait and if you are ready to provide enough
feedback regularly, it's quite doable.

When I think about it, it might make sense to ask on TikZ mailing list
as well. Maybe it's easy enough to make a general TikZ module that
would then work equally well on all engines and all flavours of TeX
(but I don't know TikZ well enough).

Mojca
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