From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/82971 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fraktur fonts Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:55:41 +0200 Message-ID: <51BA4DED.6050603@wxs.nl> References: <20130612092603.GA1090@mini> <20130613073639.GA20619@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371164170 13795 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2013 22:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:56:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 14 00:56:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UnGR8-0003es-4a for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:56:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B7F101F2; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:56:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 5C3XbVwxpzUg; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:56:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9973C101E6; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:56:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91CC101E6 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:56:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id X7uUz+sj5dQk for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:56:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD00101E4 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:55:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r5DMtgKj005568 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:55:52 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.104; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.3c2) with ESMTP id 7617-1713362 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:55:42 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: <20130613073639.GA20619@khaled-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=15; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0VJLWTGCF - 9925541ff6f1 - 20130614 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:82971 Archived-At: On 6/13/2013 9:36 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:28:12AM +0200, Rudolf Bahr wrote: >> both with "context" and "texexec", but I don't achieve the desired result. >> "texexec" displays a font somehow similar to Fraktur, but not a very nice one and >> much to broad; and it seems to have no different "s" (one inner-word and one word-end >> or syllable-end "s") as needed in Fraktur. And, my "texexec" doesn't know anything >> about umlauts and sharp s. >> Whereas my "context" (translating the same program), dosn't know Fraktur, but knows >> umlauts. > > For "context" (ConTeXt MkIV), you may want to try an OpenType Fraktur > font, like: > http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/ > > The long s versus rounded s distinction is a text input issue, you have > to inter the correct s according the position in the word (the rules are > complex, different from a country to country and from a period to > another). these fonts look quite ok .. i can even read the samples Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________