Fraktur fonts

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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Yfrak [1]: Fraktur font originally made by Yannis Haralambos in TeX font format.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, installing and using Fraktur fonts

Yfrak [1]:

1. Download yfrak.afm and install it under your 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:

   mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=yfrak*
   identifier     familyname   fontname       filename    subfont   instances

   yfrak          yfrak        yfrakregular   yfrak.afm
   yfraknormal    yfrak        yfrakregular   yfrak.afm
   yfrakregular   yfrak        yfrakregular   yfrak.afm
   

3. The provided ligatures of the font you can see by:

  starttext
  \usemodule [fnt-10]
  \ShowCompleteFont{name:yfrak}{14pt}{1}
  \stoptext

4. Providing an example of ConTeXt commands for yfrak:

  More extensive examples of font defining you can see in [4] (Willi Egger)

   \definefont [XIVyfrak] [name:yfrakregular at 14pt] [.75]

   \def\q{\hbox{}\hskip12pt } % indentation of some example text lines
   \def\glqq {\char  92 }     % " (down)
   \def\grqq {\char  34 }     % " (up)
   \def\s    {\char 330 }     % the round s
   \def\ch   {\char 282 }     % ligature  ch
   \def\ck   {\char 280 }     %     "     ck
   \def\tz   {\char 323 }     %     "     tz
   \def\ae   {\char 321 }     % umlaut    ä
   </pre

   <pre>
   \starttext

   \XIVyfrak
   \glqq Ein Hundert Ba\tz en mein Gebot,
   \q Fall\s\ Du die Kunst besi\tz est;
   Doch, merk' e\s\ dir, di\ch\ stech' ich todt,
   \q So du die Haut mir ri\tz est.\grqq
   Und der Gesell: \glqq Den Teufel auch!
   Da\s\ ist de\s\ Lande\s\ nicht der Brauch.\grqq
   \q Er l\ae uft und schi\ck t den Jungen.

   \stoptext
   

  The result is here: File:wiki-yfrak.pdf
  See [5], the 6th verse.

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
[3b]   http://www.peter-wiegel.de/index.html
[3c]   http://www.ligafaktur.de
[4]    https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2018/talks/willi-unifraktur/presentation-unifraktur.pdf (Willi Egger)
[5]    [[Media:wiki-Der-rechte-Barbier.png]]   (Adelbert von Chamisso: "Der rechte Barbier", Verlag des 
       Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig