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'''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 of letters weren't perfect enough to him.
A special keyboard driver is available for MS operating systems. You can download it by clicking on "Tastaturtreiber" or
http://www.peter-wiegel.de/download.html
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[3] http://www.peter-wiegel.de/Leipzig.html
'''Unifraktur.Maguntia [12]:''' 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
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".
