Re: manipulate ttf-fonts loaded with luatex

[Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de>]

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. 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 

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