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mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=yfrak*
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'''Yfrak [1]:''' Fraktur font originally made by Yannis Haralambos in TeX font format.
'''Unifraktur.Maguntia UnifrakturMaguntia [2]:''' You shall see both a German and an English language flag. The font is based on
Peter Wiegel’s font "Berthold Mainzer Fraktur" [2a]. For main differences see in [2]
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. A user forum used to exist, but recently it doesn't seem possible to register as new user. But one can read elder entries. "Maguntia" is derived from "Mogontiacum" which was the original celtic influenced 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". The formats OT, T1, TT of the font are all together better found at another address [3a].
This web page is in German too and admittedly the advertising makes it even more complicated to find the right download button. Because words with accents on letters normally weren't typeset in Fraktur, but in Antiqua, á, à, ó, ò, ú, ù, the $-Symbol and others were free to designate ligatures and the round s. I found it easier to define correspondend macros (See further down). At least FAQs in English can be found in [3b] after the German ones. The author points to a program (Not examined by me, for MS operating systems only) to facilitate inputting Fraktur text automatically with the right ligatures in [3c].
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==Download, installing and using Fraktur fonts==
'''Yfrak [1]:'''
1. Download yfrak.afm and install it under your ConTeXt tree ".../tex/texmf-local/".
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2. Run following programs:
mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=yfrak*
With the last command you should get following output:
identifier familyname fontname filename subfont instances
yfraknormal yfrak yfrakregular yfrak.afm
yfrakregular yfrak yfrakregular yfrak.afm
<pre>3. The You can see the provided ligatures of the font you can see "yfrak" bythe following commands, but pay attention, their index numbers are hexadecimal:
starttext
\ShowCompleteFont{name:yfrak}{14pt}{1}
\stoptext
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4. Providing an example of ConTeXt commands for yfrak:
More extensive examples of font defining you can see in [4] (Willi Egger)
\definefont [XIVyfrak] [name:yfrakregular at 14pt] [.75]
\def\tz {\char 323 } % " tz
\def\ae {\char 321 } % umlaut ä
\starttext
\stoptext
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The result is here: [[File:wiki-yfrak.pdf]]
See [5], the 6th verse.
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'''UnifrakturMaguntia [2]:'''
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1. Download UnifrakturMaguntia (UnifrakturMaguntia.2017-03-19.zip) and unzip it. You will get
"UnifrakturMaguntia.2017-03-19/" with its content:
Dokumentation_de_antiqua.pdf
Dokumentation_de_fraktur.pdf
Dokumentation_en_antiqua.pdf
Dokumentation_en_fraktur.pdf
FontLog.txt
OFL-FAQ.txt
OFL.txt
sources/
switched-on_features/
UnifrakturMaguntia.ttf
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The content of "switched-on_features/" contains UnifrakturMaguntia fonts from 16th to 21th century:
README.pdf
UnifrakturMaguntia16.ttf
UnifrakturMaguntia17.ttf
UnifrakturMaguntia18.ttf
UnifrakturMaguntia19.ttf
UnifrakturMaguntia20.ttf
UnifrakturMaguntia21.ttf
You could take all of them into your ConTeXt tree ".../tex/texmf-local/", but we will here restrict to
"UnifrakturMaguntia18.ttf".
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2. Run following programs:
mtxrun --generate
mtxrun --script fonts --reload
mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=unifrakturmaguntia18*
With the last command you should get following output:
identifier familyname fontname filename subfont instances
unifrakturmaguntia18 unifrakturmaguntia18 unifrakturmaguntia18 UnifrakturMaguntia18.ttf
unifrakturmaguntia18book unifrakturmaguntia18 unifrakturmaguntia18 UnifrakturMaguntia18.ttf
unifrakturmaguntia18normal unifrakturmaguntia18 unifrakturmaguntia18 UnifrakturMaguntia18.ttf
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3. You can see the provided ligatures of the font by the following commands,
but pay attention, their index numbers are hexadecimal:
starttext
\usemodule [fnt-10]
\ShowCompleteFont{name:unifrakturmaguntia18}{12pt}{1}
\stoptext
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4. Providing two examples of ConTeXt commands for unifrakturmaguntia18.
Because this font at 14pt is rather big and fat compared to the other ones (yfrak, leipzig),
we treat it how Hans Hagen suggested to "tweak" it a bit in the second example (\ufb).
More extensive examples of font defining you can see in [4] (Willi Egger).
Both following examples should be comparable to 12pt:
\definefontfeature[thinned-10][effect={width=-0.10,auto=yes}]
\definefont[ufa][unifrakturmaguntia18*default]
\definefont[ufb][unifrakturmaguntia18*default,thinned-10]
\def\q{\hbox{}\hskip12pt } % indentation of some of the verse text lines
\def\glqq{\char 8222 } % " down
\def\grqq{\char 8220 } % " up
\def\s {\char 383 } % tall s
\def\ch{\char 57403 } % ligature ch
\def\ck{\char 57404 } % " ck
\def\tz{\char 57406 } % " tz
\def\ff{\char 57407 } % " ff
\def\fl{\char 242 } % " fl
\def\ft{\char 57417 } % " ft
\def\st{\char 64261 } % " st
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