Re: [Groff] chess font?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gaius Mulley <address@hidden>:
> many thanks for the pointers - have found the chess postscript adobe
> fonts!

When I heard this request, there sprang into my head full-blown a design
for a troff facility that takes sections like this:

.CH
rnbqkbnr
pppppppp
. . . . 
. . . . 
. . . . 
. . . . 
. . . . 
. . . . 
PPPPPPPP
RNBQKBNR
.CE

and turns them into chess diagrams.  First I imagined a preprocessor 
generating pic, then I realized this could probably be written as a macro
using .tr.

I conclude from this that I've been thinking about Troff too much.  
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>