From: Jarl Ove Staurnes <jos <at> TANDBERG <dot> NO>
Date: 16 mar 2000
Subject: Re: Shogi Font

Reijer Grimbergen writes:
> There is a LaTeX package for making Shogi diagrams called OhTeX,
> which was developed at our lab. The style file and the metafonts
> needed can be found at my webpage:

But does it work with LaTeX 2E?  Last time I tried (1.5-2 years ago)
it failed and from what I could tell it was written for 2.09.

Thus I started my own litle project to create a Shogi Typesetting
pacakge. Even draw my own piece symbol-font using a font conversion
tool to make both METAFONT and Type-1. The font-drawing might
not have been neccessary, but from what I could understand the font
supplied with OhTex was not entirely free and my goal was to create a
package where using and the result was free to use private and
commercially.

Because of lack of time (and my horrible drawing skills ;-)) this was
never published, but if anyone is interested I'll search my computer
at home and send it(/put it on a web-server) to them.

(FYI, I don't think I ever made/finished the LaTeX part but the
package consists of a set of Perl scripts which takes a (strict) PSN
notation and presents an EPS file of a given position.)

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Jarl Ove Staurnes
TANDBERG                       http://www.tandbergvision.com