Markus, that there exist dozens of fonts designed for chessboard typesetting should suggest that people wish to use computers to do so. There are many, many volumes published on chess problems and there are some people who are passionately interested in that very specific intellectual pursuit.
I really can’t see any reason to second-guess or oppose a desire to have simple and standardized way of representing that kind of data in legible plain text whose legibility can be optimized via a standardized font mechanism. Michael Everson > On 3 Apr 2017, at 22:44, Markus Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 Apr 2017, at 18:51, Markus Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It seems to me that higher-level layout (e.g, HTML+CSS) is appropriate for >> the board layout (e.g., via a table), board frame style, and cell/field >> shading. In each field, the existing characters should suffice. > > That isn’t plain text. > > A lot of stuff needed for printing books and laying out PDFs and web pages > goes beyond plain text. > > Whose requirement is it to represent an entire chess or checkers board in > plain text? > > Other than a sort of puzzle of "what would it take to do so?" > > markus
