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gmw · 08-06-2020, 04:03 AM

Because Unicode chess pieces are essentially just characters (text), I wonder if you might have better luck using tables instead of (what I presume to be) an image for the board. With luck the table will resize more consistently with the font. You might be able to use your board image as a background image for the table, otherwise just colour the cells.

I fear that any attempt to get completely consistent behaviour between images and text is doomed to failure. (At least, that is my pessimistic forecast.)

I assume you are intending to embed an appropriate font for the pieces - relying on readers to have a font with good chess pieces could be risky.

08-06-2020, 04:03 AM	#2
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	Because Unicode chess pieces are essentially just characters (text), I wonder if you might have better luck using tables instead of (what I presume to be) an image for the board. With luck the table will resize more consistently with the font. You might be able to use your board image as a background image for the table, otherwise just colour the cells. I fear that any attempt to get completely consistent behaviour between images and text is doomed to failure. (At least, that is my pessimistic forecast.) I assume you are intending to embed an appropriate font for the pieces - relying on readers to have a font with good chess pieces could be risky.