William Overington wrote: > Suppose that one wishes to produce a chess diagram in a Unicode compliant > manner in a document produced using Word 97 running on either a Windows 95 > platform or a Windows 98 platform,
This is easy, cf. attached file, produced on a Win 98 system with Word 97. You will need the Code2000 font <http://home.att.net/~jameskass/> to view it. I hope I got Sam Lloyd's chess problem rigth ;-) In Word, I made a 8�8 table of 1 cm � 1 cm cells, with alternating back- grounds. Then, I placed the pieces there, via "insert symbol". You see, the pieces are normal characters, the board is formatting (in HTML, you'd dub it "markup"). > with a view also to save the document as plain text. Viewing a chess-board in plain text, I deem an unrealistic expectation. The background shading is a mere matter of style, and does not contribute to the semantic content of the chess situation; the alternating background colours are only an aid for the eye. All you can expect in plain text, is a sequence of chess symbols and blank spaces. It would be nice to have them arranged in 8 rows, but Word 97 does not store a table in this way: Rather you will get 64 lines (cf. second attached file). Best wishes, Otto Stolz
Schach1.doc
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