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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 happened. S…2 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
Here is a diagram from that 1818 edition of Stamma which shows all the different chess pieces. I've tried to enhance the image as much as I could to make it more legible.3 -
Re: Check language support tools
Never having heard of these glyphs, I did a web search, and found out that Unicode had such a glyph, a Danish A with a circle over it, then with an acute accent over the combination. Further searchi…1 -
Re: Why are inflections bad?
This reminds me of something. The interior of a violin has a simple curved shape, but on the outside, there are four corners where triangular wood blocks are put to brace the ribs precisely where the…3 -
Re: Grazhdanskiy Shrift
Well, perhaps this first draft of the typeface will enable him to determine which of those choices would be more faithful to the original that is being copied. Perhaps finding more print samples at …3
