On 8 Apr 2017, at 14:50, Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: >>> May be they use fonts, >> >> There is no maybe about it. > > There REALLY IS a "maybe", because this is not required at all, and most > chess applications do not use any "font" (most of them display bitmap icons, > or custom 2D/3D graphics)
The proposal is not based on the practice of chess game applications. The proposal deals with the problem of typesetting chess diagrams. This is a publishing function. >>> And SVG glyphs are easier to integrate in derived documents. >> >> Nonsense. > > Non sense reply !!! Custom fonts What? Fonts. You know. Fonts. Truetype with OpenType tables for glyph substition. This is nothing special. This is bog-standard. > are hard to integrate as they depend on renderers (which most applications > don't want to support directly, they are part of a browser or OS). And > OpenType fonts are much less flexible for what applications want to do. SVG > allows much easier variations and effects. There are tons of tools or > stylesheets for that, which will not work on glyphs in OpenType fonts. This has nothing to do with the proposal. >> We’re not proposing to “implement a game”. > > You were yourself speaking about applications, me too, not just a "game". No, I wasn’t. Michael Everson
