Fraktur Schrift

Fraktur Schrift

[Willi Egger]

Hi,

Is there somebody outthere who knows the details about using  the old
Deutsche Fraktur in 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.

Furthermore how must the coding of the tex-document be done, to get the
correct glyph?

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.

Any suggestions are very welkom.

Kind regards Willi

Re: Fraktur Schrift

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

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!