Fraktur fonts

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Introduction

This Wiki-Page deals with summarizing experiences of some of the fonts available on:

                             http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html [1]
                             http://www.peter-wiegel.de/MainzerFraktur.html  [2]
                             http://www.peter-wiegel.de/Leipzig.html         [3]

Unifraktur.Maguntia [1]: 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] 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. "Mogontiacum" was the original name of a Roman camp of legions where today is the city of Mainz (Wikipedia). A user forum used to exist, but recently it doesn't seem possible to register as new user. But one can read older entries.

Mainzer Fraktur [2]: Web page is in German. What Peter Wiegel says to this font: Mainzer Fraktur exists at other places too. His intention in digitalizing this font another time was to get genuine ligatures instead of 2 single letters simply pushed together. And often the outlines weren't perfect enough to him. A special keyboard driver is available for MS operating systems. You can download it by clicking "Tastaturtreiber" or http://www.peter-wiegel.de/download.html

Leipzig Fraktur [3]: