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Package bakoma-games:
BaKoMa modules for music and games.

This module includes popular macro packages described in chapters 7 (Preparing music scores: MusiXTeX) and 8 (Playing games: Chess, Xiangqi — Chinese Chess, Go, Backgammon, Bridge, Crosswords) of the ‘LaTeX graphics Companion’. They are precompiled for use, together with fonts and documentation, directly in BaKoMa TeX. Fonts used by some packages are converted into formats suitable both for printing and for PDF generation. For example, for Chess the diagram fonts are converted into vector Type 3 font format. Board black squares are coded as a gray color instead of dashing. This approach gives the best results on printers and displays. Fonts for in-line notation are in Type 1 font format. For Go the special fonts are too hard to convert automatically and have been efficiently coded in Type 3 font format. For Backgammon the fonts were originally dithered as halftone, making them unsuitable for PDF. The halftone was emulated by using a grey colour in Type 3 fonts.

Getting it

This package is not available from either major free distribution, MiKTeX or TeX Live.

You can visit bakoma-games's CTAN directory to browse the source or download the material for installation.

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Documentation on CTAN
Summary of the bundle
Documentation off CTAN -none known-
Maintainers
Basil Malyshev
Version -not known-
License Shareware: payment is requested if software is used
Related packages
bakoma:
A TeX distribution for MS-Windows VISTA/XP/2000.
Keywords
graphics from outside TeX
graphics created inside TeX (pictures, PSTricks, PGF, etc.)
Characterizations
primary:
Document types > Other > Chess
secondary:
Document types > Other > Other games

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