Merida SVG

Original True Type Font by Armando Hernandez Marroquin. A classic font named
after the city Merida on Yucatan, Mexico, see attached license for the font.

Base SVG images by Felix Kling were included into PyChess with his permission.
Alwey derived an extended piece set (promoted pieces, Archbishop and
Chancellor).

Intended to license this by
CC-BY-SA 4.0 (compatible with GNU GPL V 3.0)




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                         TrueType Font CHESS MERIDA
                          Update: August 12, 1998.

The figures of this font follow the more traditional style  of  the  figures
found in many publications with chess diagrams. I took them from a book with
more than 5,000 chess problems.

        I have given it the name of MERIDA in honor of a city in the
        Yucatan Peninsula, in the south east of  Mexico,  where  the
        International Grand Master  Carlos Torre Repetto (1904-1978)
        was born. He beat F. Marshall,  E. Lasker  and  E. Grnfeld,
        among other players of  the  same  category.  Currently  the
        city of Merida is the seat of one of  the  most  outstanding
        chess tournaments of Mexico, the "Carlos Torre".

The figurines was created in Corel Draw 3.0 and exported to  TTF  format  in
Corel Draw 7.0.  I made the font in the  "Colegio La Salle de San Cristobal"
(La Salle School of San Cristobal), located in the pleasant mountains of the
south of Mexico; in order to expand our collection of chess fonts.  The font
is freeware, I hope it is useful for the chess buddies. If you want to repay
us, you can send us some other fonts for  creating  chess  diagrams  (we are
collecting them).  Your comments and suggestions would  be  welcome;  please
send them to either of address that appear below.

Files in MERID_TT.ZIP:
         LEEME__D.TXT     This file in Spanish language.
         README_D.TXT     This file.
         MERIFONT.TTF     CHESS MERIDA font - Ver. 1.1
         CHESMERI.DOC     Sample and keymap.

The font is installed in Windows, as in any  other  TTF  font.  It  will  be
helpful to you for making chess diagrams and figurine notation in  the  word
processors  which  are  run  under  Windows.  The  file  CHESMERI.DOC  which
accompanies this file is made on  Word 6.0,  and contains a  sample  of  the 
creation of diagrams in a word proccesor and a keymap of this font. You will
not see these characters until the 'Chess Merida' font is installed in  your
computer.  The distribution of the figures on the keyboard is the same as in
the CHESS MARROQUIN font, as follows:


DIAGRAM BORDERS:
                                      SINGLE        DOUBLE       EXTRA *
       Top left corner                  1          !  or 033     a - A
       Top border                       2          "     034     
       Top right corner                 3          #     035     s - S
       Left border                      4          $     036    
       Right border                     5          %     037    
       Bottom left corner               7          /     047     d - D
       Bottom border                    8          (     040   
       Bottom right corner              9          )     041     f - F

BOARD POSITION ASSIGNMENTS:
                                    WHITE SQUARE         DARK SQUARE
       Squares                      [space] or * 042          +  043
       White pawn                        p                    P
       Black pawn                        o                    O
       White knight                      n                    N
       Black knight                      m                    M
       White bishop                      b                    B
       Black bishop                      v                    V
       White rook                        r                    R
       Black rook                        t                    T
       White queen                       q                    Q
       Black queen                       w                    W
       White king                        k                    K
       Black king                        l                    L

* The EXTRA keys contain round corners.  The keys  (x),  (X),  (.), and  (:)
  contain auxiliary symbols to indicate individual movements of the  pieces.

NOTE: Also you find borders with the coordinates of chessboard.  For  simple
      borders, type the ASCII codes  from  0192  to  0207,  and  for  double
      borders from 0224 to 0239.  Don't forget to type [Alt]  and  the  ZERO
      which goes with each code to generate these characters. 
      
      The figurine notation pieces are in the ASCII codes from 0162 to 0167.

      I recommend you to print the .DOC file and see the complete keymap.
                          
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Thanks a lot to:
      ERIC BENTZEN
      http://members.xoom.com/ebhkp/homeeng.htm

      HANS BODLAENDER
      http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~hansb/d.chessvar/d.font/index.html

      SETEPHANE MOUCHEL
      http://www.europe-echecs.com/

for the space to my fonts in their web sites.

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 CIRCULO LASALLISTA DE AJEDREZ        บ  ARMANDO HERNANDEZ MARROQUIN
 Apartado Postal 168                  บ
 San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas. บ  mquin@sancristobal.podernet.com.mx
 29200 MEXICO                         บ
                                      บ  Release:   February 5, 1998.
 lasalle@mundomaya.com.mx             บ  Update:    August 12, 1998.
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