Posted by Cogito on 03/29/07 05:12

>
>> 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?

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