[XeTeX] chess fonts with xelatex

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:35:45 +0000 schrieb Jonathan Kew:

> As I think about it, though, I'd suggest that the font-mapping  
> feature *does* provide a "font aliases" feature within xetex. When  
> you say
> 
>    \font\x = "My Special Chess Font:mapping=mychess"
> 
> to load an installed font, that's an "alias" for "My Special Chess  
> Font", but allows you to effectively re-encode it by applying a  
> character mapping.
> 
> I don't know how chessfss works internally, but if it's at all like  
> NFSS, it ought to be possible to load fonts similarly to how fontspec  
> does it for text fonts. And that allows them to be loaded with custom  
> font-mappings, with no need for .fd files, etc. Can't you have
> 
>    \setchessfont[Mapping=mychess]{My Special Chess Font}
> 
> just like fontspec's \setmainfont, etc.? 

That's perhaps possible. I will have to think about it. Is there
somewhere a document which describes how this Mapping is defined and
activated so that I can make some tests?



-- 
Ulrike Fischer