[Tex/LaTex] Dice symbols for digits up to 9

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I'm looking for symbols for dice faces. So far, I've found these two possibilities: The command \Cube{n} in the ifsym package, and the command \dice{n} in the epsdice package.

However, both commands only allow the standard symbols for n = 1..6.

What I'm looking for are dice symbols that include the digits 7, 8, 9 as they can be found in some extended versions of domino games.

The number 7 should look like this:

* *
***
* *

The number 8 like this:

***
* *
***

and the number 9 like this:

***
***
***

For completeness, it would also be nice if there is a blank face symbol for the digit n=0.

Is there any package allowing me to do this? If not, can anyone show me how to produce such symbols?

Best Answer

A tikz solution is obtained by modifying the answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/41628/15925

Sample output

\documentclass[border=0.5cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\tikzset{
  dot hidden/.style={},
  line hidden/.style={},
  dot colour/.style={dot hidden/.append style={color=#1}},
  dot colour/.default=black,
  line colour/.style={line hidden/.append style={color=#1}},
  line colour/.default=black
}

\usepackage{xparse}
\NewDocumentCommand{\drawdie}{O{}m}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[x=1em,y=1em,radius=0.1,#1]
  \draw[rounded corners=0.5,line hidden] (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
  \ifodd#2
    \fill[dot hidden] (0.5,0.5) circle;
  \fi
  \ifnum#2>1
    \fill[dot hidden] (0.2,0.2) circle;
    \fill[dot hidden] (0.8,0.8) circle;
   \ifnum#2>3
     \fill[dot hidden] (0.2,0.8) circle;
     \fill[dot hidden] (0.8,0.2) circle;
    \ifnum#2>5
      \fill[dot hidden] (0.8,0.5) circle;
      \fill[dot hidden] (0.2,0.5) circle;
     \ifnum#2>7
       \fill[dot hidden] (0.5,0.8) circle;
       \fill[dot hidden] (0.5,0.2) circle;
      \fi
    \fi
  \fi
\fi
\end{tikzpicture}%
}  
\begin{document}

\drawdie{0}
\drawdie{1}
\drawdie[radius=0.5pt]{3}
\drawdie{7}
\drawdie[line colour=blue,thick]{8}
\drawdie[scale=0.5,dot colour=green,very thin,line hidden/.append style={fill=red}]{9}

\end{document}

The changes I have made are to add an extra case for numbers >7 (7 worked already) and removed the thick default for the border, allowing it to be set to other values in smaller sizes. I have also removed the external dotsize variable and given an example of filling.

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