On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:14 AM Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com> wrote:
> Argh, Garth… please don’t shoot down our own proposal…
I'm not, I'm just saying that if having symbols without VS not match either
of the VSes is a sticking point, it's not hard to work around.
>
>
> > On 5 Apr 2017, at 03:41, Garth Wallace <gwalla_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I haven't worked on font fallback but maybe I can add something to this.
> >
> > Honestly, I'm not sure we need to make a distinction between
> piece-on-light-square and piece-in-notation at the SVS level.
>
> Yes, we do, if we want the data to be well formed.
>
> > Currently, chess fonts can be (roughly) divided into "diagram fonts" and
> "notation fonts”.
>
> That’s not true. There are some which do all three.
There are, sure. I said roughly: many don't do both & rely on
font-switching.
>
>
> > A diagram font:
> > - Is fixed-width (at least for the chess figurines themselves)
> > - Centers each figurine in the character cell
> > - Has a means of producing dark squares and on-dark-square equivalents
> of the figurines, either through separate allocation or a "combining dark
> square background" mechanism (usually a negative kerning hack)
> > - Usually has board border elements, and may have decimal digits and a
> subset of the lowercase Basic Latin alphabet for labeling ranks and files
>
> Gods, no. I was hoping to avoid the digits and letters for now. We mustn’t
> scare them.
>
Well, they're just letters and digits. They aren't treated specially.
>
> > None of the features required for a diagram font are unacceptable in
> figurine notation:
>
> The white ones may be too wide for use in text.
>
Not visually ideal, but legible.
>
> > In addition, when figurines for notation and for diagrams are
> distinguished, they are distinguished above the character level, in runs of
> like type: rows of a diagram, or lines of figurine notation.
>
> No, that’s spelling.
>
> Michael
>
> Sigh.
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