At 16:35 +0100 2002-02-03, Stefan Persson wrote: >Italics is better supported than Fraktur, as most word processors have an >option for using italics with any font installed on the computer. For >Fraktur one has to use a different font. There is no Fraktur font widely >spread on all Windows computers or something like that, so it's almost >impossible to using Fraktur text in any public document or similar w/o using >bitmaps.
Are you saying you don't have a Fraktur font? There are many available. See http://www.myfonts.com > >Why was Fraktur supported for mathematics, but not for old >Swedish/German/etc.? Because a semantic distinction is made in mathematics between the single letter "A" and the single letter "<fraktur>A</fraktur>" -- a distinction which does not obtain in Fraktur as used -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
