>> Hi Ralph, > Ditto! :-) And likewise… ;-)
[...] "Berkeley Font Catalogue" > The troff there for selecting the font refers to it as just `ch'. Does > that mean the file on disk would be similarly shortly named? I > downloaded a few Ultrix disk and tape images and poked around a bit but > didn't come across it. I assume it was named "CH", but I am not sure, as I am not experienced with this rather old version of troff. The troff versions I used named their fonts like groff does or something similar with only slight variations. But, as mentioned, I can just guess. Most of the Ultrix tapes I have access to have disintegrated. They were among the very few full sized QIC tapes that didn't last very well - or maybe I was just lucky that the others are still working pretty well. In the remainings of what was recoverable I didn't find any chess font, however, I didn't find any other font files either. So there are several possibilities: Either the font files were on some unrecoverable parts of the tapes (in that case we should blame Murphy) or they were named differently or they simply weren't included with the versions I checked. For my macro package I use the Adobe chess font, as it is free to use. The pieces are configurable (name -> glyph), so any similarly built font could be swapped with ease. It would be nice however to include the original Berkeley chess font just for nostalgic reasons and maybe even switching to that font as the default. Not that it was particularly well designed and beautiful, but it was a milestone in typesetting. If I read correctly, the font was included from Berkeley, so licensing shouldn't be an issue, if it is clearly stated where the font came from and what license it is licensed under - if one ever happens to come across that font. Maybe I should contact Dave Brailsford, as he probably reconstructed the chess font, too, while reconstructing the troff source for the Linotron 202 paper. Regards, Ralph
