Author: Keith Evans
Date: 14:37:10 11/30/01
Last night I noticed an interesting issue with the Chessmaster 8000 figurine font. Black's light squared bishop shows up as an empty light square in Wordpad and Word running under Windows 98SE. Does anyone here _not_ have this problem? To reproduce this problem just copy the starting position using the figurine font and paste it into WordPad. (If you view the font using the Character Map tool then the bishop is visible.) I searched on google groups for "chessmaster font bishop" and found a couple of threads "Chessmaster 6000: Bug in Copy Diagram?" and "Trouble with ChessMaster 6000 cm6000.ttf" which indicates that this problem dates back to the ChessMaster 6000 days. If that's true and it is a problem with the font itself, then it's really surprising that it hasn't been fixed yet. I'm still running the 1.02 patch, but I didn't see any mention of this made in the 1.03 or 1.04 patches. This seems like something that could easily be fixed by somebody using a font editor, or by using a different font with a compatible encoding. Anybody have an pointer to the easiest workaround? Thanks, Keith
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