> > In the meantime I had a look at different Fraktur fonts. Both suggested > > fonts [1] > > and [2] were not acceptable to me for various reasons. > > > > [1] has no gaps between words and many other errors. Horrible. > > Afaiks that font is rather bugged indeed. I tried it, even made sure the > space (which is unspecified in the afm) is set to some value but then it > seems to use maybe some ligatures which are also unspecified. Old crap. > > > [2] is far too fat to be printed in a book. The reason could be that the > > developers > > wanted to make a font suitable for internet presences where the resolution > > of screens > > is far below of that of printing machines. The good thing with [2] is that > > there is an > > extended and interesting set of orthography rules and their changes over > > various > > centuries beginning in 1600 up to today. But unfortunately the internet > > presence of [2] > > seems to be dead, the newest entry in member's forum I saw has been from > > beginning of > > 2017. > > You can tweak it a bit: > > \starttext > > \definefontfeature[thinned-10][effect={width=-0.10,auto=yes}] > > \definefont[ufa][unifrakturmaguntia*default] > \definefont[ufb][unifrakturmaguntia*default,thinned-10] > > \ufa test\par > \ufb test\par > > \stoptext > > I'm a bit puzzled by the 'dead' remark. When a project is finished, should > the author create bogus entries each year to make it look like something new > is done? > > > [3] I found the Leipzig-Fraktur-Font, a real Easter gift :-) It's > > comparable to Yannis > > Haralambous' nice fraktur font I used for years, but in ".otf"-format. It > > has the slim > > high "s" for use at the beginning of words and within words as well as the > > small round > > "s" at the end of syllabs and words. Ok, there seems to be no "!" (Instead > > I use "rm !") > > and the sharp "ß" I had to construct by "s\hskip-1pt z". But German umlauts > > can be printed, > > for instance 'ä' by '\"a', and different ligatures, for instance 'ch', > > 'st', 'tz', and > > others exist. > > So, most of my necessary conditions to a Fraktur font in ConTeXt-lmtx are > > fulfilled. > > As an example is appended "Leipzig-Fraktur-Example.pdf". > > ok > > > I thank Hans and Wolfgang for helping me. > > Best make a wiki page for this (summrizing). > > > [1] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/yfonts > > [2] http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/ > > [3] https://www.chip.de/downloads/Leipzig-Fraktur-Font_36248614.html > Hans >
I'd enjoy making a wiki page. Do we have a program to print caracter code tables or font tables? If not, I'd use a bundle of single \char commands to show which characters there are in a special Fraktur font. Rudolf ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________