Go typesetting using TeX

Here is a new system for typesetting Go games and diagrams using TeX.
This system may be used with either plain TeX or LaTeX. It includes
the Metafont sources for a new set of fonts, called GOOE, and a perl
script called sgf2tex which translates files in the common ``Smart Go
Format'' (.sgf or .mgt files) into TeX.

The numerals on the Go stones in these fonts are instances of the Computer
Modern Fonts designed by Donald Knuth and his co-workers as part of the TeX
system. The file romandg.mf is the same as the file romand.mf distributed
with TeX, with only trivial modifications to allow the fonts generated from it
to be pasted onto Go stones. This file is of course copyrighted by Donald
Knuth. The remaining portions of the GOOE/sgf2tex system are published under
the Gnu Public License, a copy of which is distributed with this system in the
file COPYING. Although this system is thus free software, we would appreciate
acknowledgement if it is used to publish a book.

In the file INSTALL, you will find instructions for installing and using
{\tt sgf2tex} and its fonts under UNIX (including Linux) and Windows~95.

Another set of Go fonts was created by Hanna Kolodziejska around 1990, and
revised by Jan van der Steen. Those fonts, together with the latex document
style file go.sty can be found at CTAN in the directory fonts/go, or at the
Go ftp sites (such as ftp://igs.nuri.net in the Go/printing directory)
under the name golatex. Jan van der Steen's utiltiy sgf2misc has
the capability of generating LaTeX or postscript files from SGF. It may
be obtained from ftp://igs.nuri.net in the Go/prog directory. Our
work is independent of and different from van der Steen's.

TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. Metafont is
a trademark of Addison Wesley Publishing Company.


                      Daniel Bump (bump@math.stanford.edu)
                      Reid Augustin (reid@netcom.com), 1997