                       TrueType Font CHESS MEDIAEVAL
                          Update: August 12, 1998

I designed this font from the figures found in a Spanish dictionary of 1977,
where it explained something about the subject of chess. I have taken almost 
all the figures from there, and I only made slight  changes.  The  figurines
was created in Corel Draw 3.0 and exported to TTF format in  Corel Draw 7.0.
I did them in the  "Colegio La Salle de San Cristobal"  (La Salle School  of
San Cristobal), located in the 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 firends.  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 MEVAL_TT.ZIP:
         LEEME__V.TXT     This file in Spanish language.
         README_V.TXT     This file.
         MVALFONT.TTF     CHESS MEDIAEVAL font - Ver. 1.1
         CHESMVAL.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  CHESMVAL.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 Mediaeval'  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          ARMANDO HERNANDEZ MARROQUIN
 Apartado Postal 168                  
 San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas.   mquin@sancristobal.podernet.com.mx
 29200 MEXICO                         
                                        Release:   December 14, 1997.
 lasalle@mundomaya.com.mx               Update:    August 12, 1998.
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