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Re: Double-width glyphs in monospace fonts
I can't add anything to the answer you've already recieved: if even one glyph has a different width, the font isn't monospaced any more. However, that doesn't mean that this is a …2 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
It is true that in addition to designing the Staunton chess set, Nathaniel Cook also wrote a book on chess openings, although it just had charts and no diagrams. A quick perusal of some old chess boo…1 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
I have now looked at your site. I think I found the essay in which the researches in question are contained. I see you had found an example of a Queen with a coronet in an 1820 chess diagram, so I…1 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
If one goes to the House of Staunton website to see a contemporary set made according to the Grand Cigar Divan of Simpson's on the Strand pattern, claimed to be accurate to the smallest details.…1 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
In fact, the diagrams from the 1819 book "Chess Rendered Familiar", an edition of Philidor's Analyse d'echecs with diagrams added after every move, are an example of what likely h…2