Le 08/11/14 00:26, Whistler, Ken a écrit :
Garth Wallace asked:
I'm currently working towards a proposal to encode a set of symbols
used in fairy chess and chess variants, and I have a question about
naming conventions. Several of the symbols are rotations of already
encoded symbols. ...
It's even more unclear when it comes to intermediate rotations in 45°
increments (I'm not sure if I will include these in any proposal; I'm
still doing research, gathering evidence of use and determining my
scope). Arrows seem to use ordinal compass directions (e.g. NORTH EAST
ARROW), but again these are not arrows. The names FAQ is silent on
this.
I'm leaning towards "turned", "left rotated", and "right rotated" for
the cardinal orientations, and have no idea what (if anything) to do
about intermediate ones. Are there any more or less official
preferences?
When you start talking about sets of symbols rotated into 8
orientations each, doubled again by chirality, then you really
are into the realm of a notational system -- perhaps not best
handled for encoding by simply separately encoding each symbolic
unit in each possible visual orientation.
I suggest first taking a look at what was done for analyzing a similar
problem of rotation of symbols for the SignWriting notation
system. See:
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12321-n4342-signwriting.pdf
That should give you some ideas about possible alternative approaches
for the material you are dealing with.
--Ken
Could the characters SWR2 to SWR8 be applied to chess symbols or should
new rotation modifiers be created for them?
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