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! Gr��lis vom Hraban!
