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'''Leipzig Fraktur <pre> \definefont [3XIVyfrak][name:''' 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 yfrakregular at another address 14pt] [3a.75]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. At least FAQs in English can be found under http://www.peter-wiegel.de/index.html after the German ones. The author points to a program (for MS operating systems only) to facilitate inputting Fraktur text with the right ligatures: http://www.ligafaktur.de/ If ConTeXt could supply word-division on request it wouldn't perhaps be too difficult to make such a program in lua.
==Download and Installing== \def\q{\hbox{}\hskip12pt } % indentation of some example text lines \def\glqq {\char 92 } % ,, (German left quotation) \def\grqq {\char 34 } % " (German right quotation) \def\s {\char 330 } % the round s \def\ch {\char 282 } % ligature ch \def\ck {\char 280 } % " ck \def\tz {\char 323 } % " tz \def\ae {\char 321 } % German umlaut ä</pre>
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Rudolf Bahr
==Introduction==
This Wiki-Page deals with summarizing experiences of three Fraktur fonts available on:
[1] https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/yfonts
'''Yfrak [1]:''' Fraktur font originally made by Yannis Haralambos in TeX font format.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" [22a]. For main differences see in [12]
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 older 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. Me however, 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].---- ==Download, installing and using Fraktur fonts== '''Yfrak [1]:''' 1. Download yfrak.afm and install it under your ConTeXt tree ".../tex/texmf-local/". <pre>2. Run following programs: mtxrun --generate mtxrun --script fonts --reload mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=yfrak* With the last command you should get following output: identifier familyname fontname filename subfont instances yfrak yfrak yfrakregular yfrak.afm yfraknormal yfrak yfrakregular yfrak.afm yfrakregular yfrak yfrakregular yfrak.afm</pre> <pre>3. You can see the provided ligatures of the font "yfrak" by the following commands, but pay attention, their index numbers are hexadecimal: starttext \usemodule [fnt-10] \ShowCompleteFont{name:yfrak}{14pt}{1} \stoptext</pre> <pre>4. Providing an example of ConTeXt commands for yfrak: More extensive examples of font defining you can see in [4] (Willi Egger)</pre>
<pre>
\starttext
\XIVyfrak
\glqq Ein Hundert Ba\tz en mein Gebot,
\q Fall\s\ Du die Kunst besi\tz est;
Doch, merk' e\s\ dir, di\ch\ stech' ich todt,
\q So du die Haut mir ri\tz est.\grqq
Und der Gesell: \glqq Den Teufel auch!
Da\s\ ist de\s\ Lande\s\ nicht der Brauch.\grqq
\q Er l\ae uft und schi\ck t den Jungen.
\stoptext
</pre>
<pre>
The result is here: [[File:wiki-yfrak.png]]
See also [5], the 6th verse.
</pre>
----
'''UnifrakturMaguntia [2]:'''
<pre>
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
</pre>
<pre>
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".
</pre>
<pre>
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
</pre>
<pre>
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
</pre>
<pre>
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:
</pre>
<pre>
\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 } % ,, (German left quotation)
\def\grqq{\char 8220 } % " (German right quotation)
\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
</pre>
<pre>
\starttext
\ufa
\glqq Ein Hundert Ba\tz en mein Gebot,\\
\q Falls du die Kun\st\ be\s i\tz e\st;\\
Do\ch, merk' es dir, di\ch\ \st e\ch' i\ch\ todt,\\
\q So du die Haut mir ri\tz e\st.\grqq\\
Und der Ge\s ell: \glqq Den Teufel auch!\\
Das i\s t des Landes ni\ch t der Brau\ch.\grqq\\
\q Er läu\ft\ und \s\ch i\ck t den Jungen.
\stoptext
</pre>
<pre>
After having done so, the same text will be "tweaked" by "\ufb".
Compare the two prints. The result is here: [[File:wiki-maguntia.png]]
See also [5], the 6th verse.
</pre>
----
'''Leipzig Fraktur [3a]'''
<pre>
1. If we really succeeded in downloading "Leipzigfraktur_font.zip" in the advertising jungle of [3a],
we can unzip it and get:
inflating: LeipzigFrakturTT.zip
inflating: LeipzigFrakturT1.zip
inflating: LeipzigFrakturOT.zip
Let's take the OT-version and unzip it. So we get:
inflating: Leipzig Fraktur Lies mich.txt
inflating: Leipzig Fraktur.gif
inflating: Creative Commons Lizenz.txt
inflating: Leipzig Fraktur Heavy.otf
inflating: Leipzig Fraktur Normal.otf
inflating: Leipzig Fraktur Bold.otf
inflating: Leipzig Fraktur Normal LF.otf
inflating: Leipzig Fraktur Bold LF.otf
</pre>
<pre>
We'll take "Leipzig Fraktur Normal.otf", but as brave linuxers we don't like MS-gaps in file names
and alter this one into "Leipzig_Fraktur_Normal.otf", before we store the file into the ConTeXt tree
".../tex/texmf-local/".
</pre>
<pre>
2. We run following programs:
mtxrun --generate
mtxrun --script fonts --reload
mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=leipzig*
With the last command we should get following output:
identifier familyname fontname filename subfont instances
leipzigfraktur leipzigfraktur leipzigfrakturnormal Leipzig_Fraktur_Normal.otf
leipzigfrakturnormal leipzigfraktur leipzigfrakturnormal Leipzig_Fraktur_Normal.otf
</pre>
<pre>
3. We 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:leipzigfrakturnormal}{14pt}{1}
\stoptext
</pre>
<pre>
4. Providing an example of ConTeXt commands for leipzigfrakturnormal:
More extensive examples of font defining you can see in [4] (Willi Egger)
</pre>
<pre>
\definefont [XIVleip] [leipzigfrakturnormal at 14pt] [.75]
\def\q{\hbox{}\hskip12pt } % indentation 12pt in some verses text lines
\def\glqq {\char 8222 } % ,, (German left-quotation)
\def\grqq {\char 8220 } % " (German right-quotation)
\def\s {\$ } % round s
\def\ae {\char 228 } % German umlaut ä
\def\ch {\char 224 } % Ligature ch
\def\ck {\char 225 } % " ck
\def\tz {\char 250 } % " tz
\def\st {\char 249 } % " st
\def\ft {\char 237 } % " ft
\def\ll {l\hskip-.5pt l} % " ll
\def\sch {s\hskip-1pt\ch } % " sch (tweaked)
% No ordinary exclamation mark "!" available, but a spanish upside down one: "\char 161".
% So we have to rotate it by 180° and push it 6pt higher:
\setbox0=\hbox{\lower-6pt\hbox{\rotate[rotation=180]{\char 161 }}}
</pre>
<pre>
\starttext
\XIVleip
\glqq Ein Hundert Ba\tz en mein Gebot,\\
\q Fa\ll\s\ Du die Kun\st\ besi\tz e\st;\\
Do\ch, merk' e\s\ dir, di\ch\ \st e\ch' i\ch\ todt,\\
\q So du die Haut mir ri\tz e\st.\grqq\\
Und der Gese\ll: \glqq Den Teufel auch\copy0\\
Da\s\ i\st\ de\s\ Lande\s\ nicht der Brau\ch.\grqq\\
\q Er l\ae u\ft\ und \sch i\ck t den Jungen.
\stoptext
</pre>
<pre>
The result is here: [[File:wiki-leipzig.png]]
See also [5], the 6th verse.
</pre>
----
==References==
<pre>
[1] https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/yfonts (Torsten Bronger, Yannis Haralambos)
[2] http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html
[2a] http://www.peter-wiegel.de/MainzerFraktur.html
[3] http://www.peter-wiegel.de/Leipzig.html
[3a] https://www.chip.de/downloads/Leipzig-Fraktur-Font_36248614.html
[3b] http://www.peter-wiegel.de/index.html
[3c] http://www.ligafaktur.de
[4] https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2018/talks/willi-unifraktur/presentation-unifraktur.pdf (Willi Egger)
[5] [[File:wiki-Der-rechte-Barbier.png]] (Adelbert von Chamisso: "Der rechte Barbier", Verlag des
Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig
</pre>
