I'm using the package chessboard
do display chess diagrams, and therefore chessfss
is used for chess fonts if my understanding is correct.
To display the white chess pieces within normal text when writing explanations, I use the commands \pawn
, \rook
, \knight
, \bishop
, \queen
and \king
(see the example below).
\documentclass[varwidth,margin=0.5cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{chessfss}
\begin{document}
White pieces : \pawn \rook \knight \bishop \queen \king\\
Black pieces : \BlackPawnOnWhite \BlackRookOnWhite \BlackKnightOnWhite
\BlackBishopOnWhite \BlackQueenOnWhite \BlackKingOnWhite
\end{document}
What are the corresponding commands to display the black pieces? I have tried commands like \BlackPawnOnWhite
but as you can see it is not suited to in-text use.
Best Answer
There aren't many chessfonts which actually contain black figurine pieces. I only know the berlin family and there you need to change the font shape to access them:
If you want to use another chess font you will have to get suitable glyphs first. You could e.g. ask the author of skaknew to add them. I could then create support files.
Edit
You could get glyphs by taking the font with the board pieces and then create a virtual font which changes the bounding boxes so that they sit better on the line.