From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Fraktur Schrift
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 20:50:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112291950.fBTJoYr01398@nathir.fiee.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001001c18fd7$b21d74a0$0100a8c0@xs4all.nl>
Am Freitag 28 Dezember 2001 20:41 schrieb Willi Egger:
> Is there somebody outthere who knows the details about using the old
> Deutsche Fraktur in Context?
I do. But only typograhically, not with ConTeXt. ;-)
> I know that there are two glyphs for the letter s. However after installing
> the type1 font 'Fette Fraktur' from Corel in the texnansi encoding by means
> of texfont.pl I cant't find the second glyph of the letter s.
I don't know the font delivered with Corel, but I presume it to be in Adobe
Standard Encoding - such is worthless for "real" gothic typography.
Linotype delivers most gothic fonts in two different encodings: 1. Adobe
Standard (without long s etc.) and 2. DFR (Deutsches Fraktur-Layout), that
contains not only the long s but also some needed ligatures (eg. ll, fi, fl,
st, sch, ch)
In DFR the round s lays at the place of en dash...
> Furthermore how must the coding of the tex-document be done, to get the
> correct glyph?
I know only the coding for the TeX-YFonts, by Yannis Someone; these are free
MetaFonts, available from CTAN (dont' tknow if there are already
PS-Type1-variants). With the LaTeX-yfonts-package you write "s:" for a round
s (end-s), only "s" for a long s (middle-s); ligatures come
TeX-automatically.
For a special encoded font (like Linotype-DFR) someone must build a special
handling.
> Finally I have also two other types of Fraktur fonts, which are in the ttf
> format. - There is no problem so far to get them working exept that the
> same problem as mentioned above arises.
Most gothic fonts contain no long s - most fonts are made by americans who
not even know that someone could need umlauts...
Happy New Year!
Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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