% a font for double-9 dominoes % initially designed to work best on 300dpi printer % Example: To typeset a 2x3 array containing a vertical "1 over 2" % followed by horizontal "3 4" over horizontal "5 6", say % \obeylines \catcode`\^=12 \offinterlineskip % ^1<3>4 % v2<5>6 % One can also typeset individual half dominoes without boundaries % Note: The "real" dominoes (made in Taiwan) have slightly different % proportions, more or less as if the centers were at 17,32,47 instead % instead of 16,32,48. But the present scheme seems mathematically better. mode_setup; p#:=in#/300; d#:=64p#; define_pixels(p); font_identifier:="DOMINO"; font_coding_scheme:="dominoes"; font_size:=10pt#; pickup pencircle scaled p; tiny_pen=savepen; pickup pencircle scaled 13p; huge_pen=savepen; % I first tried 15p, and it looked OK, but the Taiwan set has smaller dots pickup pencircle scaled 3p; bound_pen=savepen; def begindomchar(expr code)= beginchar(code,d#,d#,0); pickup tiny_pen; for x=0 step 2p until 60p: drawdot (x+.5p,1.5p); drawdot (x+1.5p,.5p); drawdot (.5p,x+3.5p); drawdot (1.5p,x+2.5p); drawdot (w-1.5p,x+1.5p); drawdot (w-.5p,x+.5p); drawdot (x+2.5p,h-.5p); drawdot (x+3.5p,h-1.5p); endfor fill (2p,2p)--(w-2p,2p)--(w-2p,h-2p)--(2p,h-2p)--cycle; pickup huge_pen; enddef; def dota = erase drawdot(16p,48p) enddef; def dotb = erase drawdot(32p,48p) enddef; def dotc = erase drawdot(48p,48p) enddef; def dotd = erase drawdot(16p,32p) enddef; def dote = erase drawdot(32p,32p) enddef; def dotf = erase drawdot(48p,32p) enddef; def dotg = erase drawdot(16p,16p) enddef; def doth = erase drawdot(32p,16p) enddef; def doti = erase drawdot(48p,16p) enddef; def v(expr code)=128+ASCII code enddef; % change character code for vertical format begindomchar("0"); endchar; begindomchar("1"); dote; endchar; %begindomchar("2"); dotc; dotg; endchar; %begindomchar(v("2")); dota; doti; endchar; % in vertical position %begindomchar("3"); dotc; dote; dotg; endchar; %begindomchar(v("3")); dota; dote; doti; endchar; % in vertical position begindomchar("2"); dota; doti; endchar; begindomchar(v("2")); dotc; dotg; endchar; % in vertical position begindomchar("3"); dota; dote; doti; endchar; begindomchar(v("3")); dotc; dote; dotg; endchar; % in vertical position begindomchar("4"); dota; dotc; dotg; doti; endchar; begindomchar("5"); dota; dotc; dote; dotg; doti; endchar; begindomchar("6"); dota; dotb; dotc; dotg; doth; doti; endchar; begindomchar(v("6")); dota; dotc; dotd; dotf; dotg; doti; endchar; % vert begindomchar("7"); dota; dotb; dotc; dote; dotg; doth; doti; endchar; begindomchar(v("7")); dota; dotc; dotd; dote; dotf; dotg; doti; endchar; % vert begindomchar("8"); dota; dotb; dotc; dotd; dotf; dotg; doth; doti; endchar; begindomchar("9"); dota; dotb; dotc; dotd; dote; dotf; dotg; doth; doti; endchar; beginchar("<",d#,d#,0); % outline of left half fill (w-2.5p,h-2p)--(w+2.5p,h-2p)--(w+2.5p,2p)--(w-2.5p,2p)--cycle; endchar; beginchar(">",d#,d#,0); % outline of right half fill (-2.5p,h-2p)--(2.5p,h-2p)--(2.5p,2p)--(-2.5p,2p)--cycle; endchar; beginchar("^",d#,d#,0); % outline of top half fill (2p,-2.5p)--(2p,2.5p)--(w-2p,2.5p)--(w-2p,-2.5p)--cycle; endchar; beginchar("v",d#,d#,0); % outline of bottom half fill (2p,h-2.5p)--(2p,h+2.5p)--(w-2p,h+2.5p)--(w-2p,h-2.5p)--cycle; endchar; ligtable "^": "v": "2" |=: v("2"), v("2") kern-d#, "3" |=: v("3"), v("3") kern-d#, "6" |=: v("6"), v("6") kern-d#, "7" |=: v("7"), v("7") kern-d#, skipto 1; ligtable "<": ">": "2" kern-d#, "3" kern-d#, "6" kern-d#, "7" kern-d#, 1:: "0" kern-d#, "1" kern-d#, "4" kern-d#, "5" kern-d#, "8" kern-d#, "9" kern-d#; end.