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'''Leipzig Fraktur [3]:''' Web page is in German. Peter Wiegel made this font for the same reasons as with "Mainzer Fraktur". The formats OT, T1, TT of the font are all together better found at another address [3a]. | '''Leipzig Fraktur [3]:''' Web page is in German. Peter Wiegel made this font for the same reasons as with "Mainzer Fraktur". The formats OT, T1, TT of the font are all together better found at another address [3a]. | ||
| − | This web page is in German too and admittedly the advertising makes it even more complicated to find the right download button. Because words with accents on letters normally weren't typeset in Fraktur, but in Antiqua, á, à, ó, ò, ú, ù, the $-Symbol and others were free to designate ligatures and the round s. I found it easier to define correspondend macros (See further down). At least FAQs in English can be found in [3b] after the German ones. The author points to a program (Not | + | This web page is in German too and admittedly the advertising makes it even more complicated to find the right download button. Because words with accents on letters normally weren't typeset in Fraktur, but in Antiqua, á, à, ó, ò, ú, ù, the $-Symbol and others were free to designate ligatures and the round s. I found it easier to define correspondend macros (See further down). At least FAQs in English can be found in [3b] after the German ones. The author points to a program (Not examined by me, for MS operating systems only) to facilitate inputting Fraktur text automatically with the right ligatures in [3c]. |
==Download and Installing== | ==Download and Installing== | ||
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'''Yfrak [1]:''' | '''Yfrak [1]:''' | ||
| − | 1. Download yfrak.afm and install it under ../tex/texmf-local/ | + | 1. Download yfrak.afm and install it under yout ConTeXt tree .../tex/texmf-local/ |
2. Run following programs: | 2. Run following programs: | ||
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With the last command you should get following output: | With the last command you should get following output: | ||
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Revision as of 07:04, 8 May 2019
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Introduction
This Wiki-Page deals with summarizing experiences of three Fraktur fonts available on:
[1] https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/yfonts [2] http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html [3] http://www.peter-wiegel.de/Leipzig.html
Yfrak [1]: Fraktur font originally made by Yannis Haralambos in TeX font format.
Unifraktur.Maguntia [2]: You shall see both a German and an English language flag. The font is based on Peter Wiegel’s font "Berthold Mainzer Fraktur" [2a]. For main differences see in [2] the chapter "About the Font". There you shall find links to manuals too (with General Rules for Typesetting Fraktur) by Gerrit Ansmann, written in antiqua as well as in fraktur. Interesting is a set of orthography rules and their changes over various centuries beginning in the 16th up to today. A user forum used to exist, but recently it doesn't seem possible to register as new user. But one can read older entries. "Mogontiacum" was the original name of a Roman camp of legions where today is the city of Mainz (Wikipedia).
Leipzig Fraktur [3]: Web page is in German. Peter Wiegel made this font for the same reasons as with "Mainzer Fraktur". The formats OT, T1, TT of the font are all together better found at another address [3a]. This web page is in German too and admittedly the advertising makes it even more complicated to find the right download button. Because words with accents on letters normally weren't typeset in Fraktur, but in Antiqua, á, à, ó, ò, ú, ù, the $-Symbol and others were free to designate ligatures and the round s. I found it easier to define correspondend macros (See further down). At least FAQs in English can be found in [3b] after the German ones. The author points to a program (Not examined by me, for MS operating systems only) to facilitate inputting Fraktur text automatically with the right ligatures in [3c].
Download and Installing
Yfrak [1]:
1. Download yfrak.afm and install it under yout ConTeXt tree .../tex/texmf-local/
2. Run following programs:
mtxrun --generate
mtxrun --script fonts --reload
mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=yfrak*
With the last command you should get following output:
File:$HOME/context-tests/wiki-yfrak-mtxrun-pattern.png
References
[1] https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/yfonts (Torsten Bronger, Yannis Haralambos)
[2] http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html
[2a] http://www.peter-wiegel.de/MainzerFraktur.html
[3] http://www.peter-wiegel.de/Leipzig.html
[3a] https://www.chip.de/downloads/Leipzig-Fraktur-Font_36248614.html
