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'''Unifraktur.Maguntia [2]:''' You shall see both a German and an English language flag. The font is based on  
 
'''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" [2]. For main differences see in [1]  
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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  
 
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.  
 
Typesetting Fraktur) by Gerrit Ansmann, written in antiqua as well as in fraktur.  

Revision as of 19:30, 7 May 2019



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Introduction

This Wiki-Page deals with summarizing experiences of 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Yfrak [1]: Fraktur font originally made by Yannis Haralambos in TeX font format.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. At least FAQs in English can be found under http://www.peter-wiegel.de/index.html after the German ones. The author points to a program (for MS operating systems only) to facilitate inputting Fraktur text with the right ligatures: http://www.ligafaktur.de/ If ConTeXt could supply word-division on request it wouldn't perhaps be too difficult to make such a program in lua.

Download and Installing

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