Bug#133605: ITP: tex-chess -- fonts for typesetting chess moves/diags with (La)TeX
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-12
Severity: normal
Piet Tutelaers' chess fonts and macros for TeX and LaTeX are
the most commonly (only?) used metafont fonts for typesetting
chess moves and diagram using (La)TeX. It is available from,
for instance, ftp://ftp.ntg.nl/pub/tex-archive/fonts/chess.
According to the copyright file "These METAFONT programs and
other files are freely distributable in the spirit of TeX."
There is one serious drawback: the package hasn't been updated
since 1992! The example files are, for instance, still for use
with the old LaTeX (2.9?). The package itself works ok with
current LaTeX.
Becaue it still seems to be in use, I'd still like to package it.
The main reason is, btw, that it is used by scid, a chess game database,
to generate printable output.
Peter van Rossum
petervr@debian.org
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux klecker 2.2.20 #1 SMP Sat Nov 10 15:29:57 CET 2001 i686
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