combgames-symbols

Version 1.0, 2026-10-28.

Symbols and braces-and-slashes notation for combinatorial game theory. Load with \usepackage{combgames-symbols}. The board package is not needed.

For use in a document folder or Overleaf project, copy the .sty file and:

• pdfLaTeX: the .tfm, .map, .enc and .pfb files;
• XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX: the .otf file.

All these files have basename combgames-symbols. The pdfLaTeX map is loaded automatically. Dependencies: iftex, expl3, xparse, amsmath, amssymb; fontspec is also used with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.

See combgames-symbols-doc.pdf for the command reference. Compile its .tex source with pdfLaTeX twice to rebuild the manual.

To rebuild the fonts, run in a working copy of this directory:

mpost -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error combgames-symbols.mp
fontforge -lang=py -script combgames-symbols-build.py

The second command requires FontForge's Python module and otftotfm on PATH. On Windows, ffpython.exe combgames-symbols-build.py is an alternative. The script writes the .otf, .pfb, .tfm and .map files using the supplied encoding. SVGs, automatic encodings and the -metrics.otf file are build intermediates, not installation files. The METAPOST source was formerly named combgames.mp in the development version; it has been renamed to distinguish this adaptation from the original work.

Copyright (c) 2026 Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo. Distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c or later: https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt Maintenance status: maintained. Current Maintainer: Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo (simon@eulercircle.com).

Adapted from combgames by Raymond Chen, David Wolfe and Aaron N. Siegel, distributed under LPPL 1.3c: https://github.com/aaron-siegel/combgames This is a modified work, not an upstream combgames release.

This work consists of the following files:

• combgames-symbols.sty
• combgames-symbols.otf
• combgames-symbols.pfb
• combgames-symbols.tfm
• combgames-symbols.map
• combgames-symbols.enc
• combgames-symbols.mp
• combgames-symbols-build.py
• combgames-symbols-doc.tex
• combgames-symbols-doc.pdf
• README.md