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Posted by dorayme on 03/29/07 05:53
In article <ljim039lvpu1302kak1ijlmb7hai8t0gu8@4ax.com>,
Cogito <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
> >
> >> For a chess puzzle that I'm working on at the moment, I need to
> >> display a chessboard with several queens on it. The chessboard is an
> >> html table and the queens are represented by the character '*'.
> >> This part is now working well.
> >>
> >> In order to embellish the appearance of the chessboard I searched the
> >> internet and found a set of free chess fonts.
> >>
> >> My problem is that I don't know how to select the queen character from
> >> the chess fonts to replace the '*'. Any help would be greatly
> >> appreciated.
> >
> >If you want a chess puzzle (and the graphic is not so bad), look
> >at:
> >
> ><http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/binHassad/missingKing.ht
> >ml>
> >
> >If it is scaling you want, (a table will only scale the non
> >images normally anyway), there is a simple way and reasonably
> >good in many modern browsers. Prepare a reasonably big graphic
> >and give it dimensions in %s in css not in the html.
>
>
> All I'm asking is for a code example of how do I display the queen
> character. When I use the font manager, I can see the various chess
> pieces characters, and I'm sure it is quite simple, but, how do I get
> them displayed?
If you are asking how to get a browser to display a particular
font, you can do it like this:
td {font-family: "Chess"}
And you type in the character that displays the queen. I am using
"Chess" here to name the font you have recently found, I have no
idea about it.
Are you expecting your website internet visitors to have a
special font that looks like a chess Queen? This is not so easy
or possible. So, what I am encouraging you to say is more about
what you are doing and why. Why would a straight out graphic be
inappropriate to your needs?
If someone does not have that font - and there is nothing you can
specify as fallback after "Chess" that could at all help.
Normally, one puts in one's preferences like Geneva and at the
end of a comma delimited list, put in a generic: ,sans-serif
But, Cogito, please don't worry about all this stuff, just solve
the problem I gave you.
--
dorayme
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