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-<header>\r
-<title>WGP: Piece Fonts</title>\r
-</header>\r
-<body>\r
-<table cellpadding="20"><tr><td>\r
-<h1>The WinBoard Gold Pack 4.4.0</h1>\r
-<h2>For the ultimate WinBoard experience!</h2>\r
-</td><td>\r
-<img src="mini.gif">\r
-</td></tr></table>\r
-<p>\r
-Chess fonts are fonts where each letter is a small picture, like hieroglyphs.\r
-The pictures represent Chess pieces, e.g. the A can look like a King, the B like a Queen.\r
-Often there are separate characters for white and black pieces,\r
-and often also for pieces on white and black squares.\r
-In WinBoard 4.4, it is posible to use such fonts for displaying the pieces.\r
-You would only need the pieces on light squares for this,\r
-as WinBoard will draw the background by itself.\r
-</p>\r
-<h3>Step 1: Installing the Font on your Computer</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-The first step is to download the font.\r
-The "Chess Mark" font that is provided as an example in already included in this package,\r
-and the installer puts it in the Windows fonts folder for you,\r
-so it becomes automatically available in all your Windows applications.\r
-Other fonts can be obtained from the internet.\r
-A link to the website from which ChessMark was originally obtained,\r
-is given below.\r
-It contains many freeware fonts.\r
-You can pre-view the various fonts there as well.\r
-</p><p>\r
-To install new fonts, you can use the following procedure:\r
-After clicking the download link you can ask to open the file,\r
-Windows will then automatically show you its contents.\r
-(Often this does not work, though.\r
-In that case you will have to click 'Save' in stead of 'Open',\r
-and save the downloaded .zip file somewhere.\r
-After that you get the option to click 'Open' again,\r
-and then it usually works.)\r
-The opened zip file will in general contain 4 files,\r
-two READ_ME files (one in Danish), a Word document, and the font file (.tff) itself.\r
-</p><p>\r
-Click "extract all files" on the upper left.\r
-This makes the unpack wizzard pop up, which will guide you trough the unpacking process.\r
-You can unpack the fonts download in any convenient place;\r
-you will have to move some selected parts of it to another place anyway.\r
-</p><p>\r
-After unpacking,\r
-the .tff file must be moved to the /WINDOWS/FONTS folder to become installed.\r
-Sometimes it becomes only active after restarting your computer.\r
-If the font is correctly installed, you will see some Chess-piece symbols\r
-when you click the .tff file in your system's Fonts folder.\r
-If the page you see when clicking this file is mostly blank,\r
-you probably have to restart your computer.\r
-</p>\r
-<h3>Step 2: Tell WinBoard to use the Font</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-To use a font for rendering pieces, you have to tel WinBoard two things:\r
-<br>\r
-* Which font to use\r
-<br>\r
-* Which character represents which piece\r
-<br>\r
-The latter is unfortunately not standardized; every fonts does it differently.\r
-For the first thing there is a command-line option /renderPiecesWithFont="Chess Mark"\r
-(or whatever font you have downoaded).\r
-If you want this to become the global default for your "board look",\r
-you have to append this to the winboard.ini file in the WinBoard folder (i.e. ~\WinBoard\winboard.ini),\r
-using a text editor (e.g. MS NotePad).\r
-The option is already there in the winboard.ini supplied with the Gold Pack,\r
-but it is made inactive by putting a '*' in front of the font name.\r
-So you could also look for that option in the winboard.ini file, and delete the asterisk.\r
-</p><p>\r
-If you don't want to make the font a global default,\r
-you could make a special shortcut for it,\r
-that only works if WinBoard is invoked through this shortcut.\r
-The options we discuss here should then not go into the winboard.ini file,\r
-but in a separate small .ini file like the supplied example "ChessMark.ini".\r
-</p><p>\r
-The mapping of pieces on characters is controlled by the option /fontPieceToCharTable="...",\r
-where the "..." lists the character needed to obtain PNBRQKpnbrqk, in that order.\r
-Sometimes the mapping is specified in one of the README files that come with the font.\r
-But if you don't know which to use,\r
-you can experiment by making a text in MS Word consisting of the full alphabet,\r
-and then changing the font for it to the font you just installed.\r
-(If this package installed correctly, you should already have "ChessMark" in your font menu, there.)\r
-The winboard.ini supplied with this package already sets the proper values for ChessMark,\r
-but if you would try another font it would likely start to mix up the pieces unless you change these settings.\r
-</p>\r
-<h3>Coloring the Pieces and Fine Tuning</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-The inner part of the pieces (everything inside the black outline defined by the font)\r
-is filled with a color gradient.\r
-Usually, the black pieces have almost solid font images, so there is little to fill there.\r
-If you don't want that, you can use the /allWhite=true option\r
-(also selectable from the "Options -> Board..." menu dialog).\r
-The actual colors are set by the following four options,\r
-which define a foreground and background color for both the white and black pieces.\r
-The actual color gradually changes from foreground on one side to backfground on the other,\r
-to simulate shading.\r
-If you don't want this shading, you can make foreground and background colors equal.\r
-The colors (unfortnately) have to be given as hexadecimal code for RGB intensities...).\r
-In the winboard.ini supplied with this package they are set to white and black.\r
-</p><p>\r
-Pieces rendered with fonts are automaticaly scaled with the board size. \r
-Not all fonts are equally big though, even if they are all called 12-point (or whatever).\r
-Therefore the size of the pieces can need some fine-tuning,\r
-which can be done with the option /fontPieceSize=N, where N is a number.\r
-The number is aproximately the percentage of the size that would nominally be needed\r
-to fill an entire board square.\r
-So usually we have to set it slightly below 100.\r
-The settings used in the ChessMark.ini example file are:\r
-</p>\r
-<pre>\r
-/renderPiecesWithFont="Chess Mark"\r
-/fontPieceBackColorWhite=#ffffff\r
-/fontPieceForeColorWhite=#000000\r
-/fontPieceBackColorBlack=#ffffff\r
-/fontPieceForeColorBlack=#000000\r
-/fontPieceSize=80\r
-/fontPieceToCharTable="pnbrqkomvtwl"\r
-</pre>\r
-<h3>Links</h3>\r
-<p>\r
-<a href="http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/fontedk.htm">A Download Page for Chess Fonts</a>\r
-</p>\r
-<p>\r
-<a href="texture.html">Using arbitrary bitmaps for chess board</a>\r
-</p>\r
-<p>\r
-<a href="shortcuts.html">Customizing WinBoard through shortcuts</a>\r
-</p>\r
-</body>\r
-</html>\r
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