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From: Rudolf Bahr qu...@quasi.de
Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Fraktur fonts
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:28:12 +0200
Message-ID: 20130612092603.GA1090@mini
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Hello list members,
an only-a-few-days-fan of Context writes to you for the first time. I'm pleased
to have found a program closer to TeX and younger than LaTeX. In the last years
I used LaTeX for a bigger family project with good success, but experienced
some
difficulties in arranging minipages containing changing text and pictures
especially in series letters.
So I'm trying to do that using Context. Of course I cannot change hundreds of
files from LaTeX to Context, but newer tasks I'd like to do in Context.
There is a first question I have concerning Fraktur fonts which I'd like to use
typesetting a poem:
I found a 2-mail-discussion in your 2002-archiv concerning those fonts. But I
have to admit that I don't understand what is written there. So, I tried simply
\definefont[Gedichtfont][Fraktur]
\Gedichtfont{... poem ...}
both with context and texexec, but I don't achieve the desired result.
texexec displays a font somehow similar to Fraktur, but not a very nice one
and
much to broad; and it seems to have no different s (one inner-word and one
word-end
or syllable-end s) as needed in Fraktur. And, my texexec doesn't know
anything
about umlauts and sharp s.
Whereas my context (translating the same program), dosn't know Fraktur, but
knows
umlauts.
So I'm always using both of them, enjoying the partial success of both, though
I read somewhere, it should be better using texexec.
Well, a very nice Fraktur font is Yannis Haralambous' yfrak in his yfont
series, the nicest one I've found until now.
Could you please help me to formulate the correct commands to use a nice
Fraktur
font, be it yfrak or another one? But please remember, Context is still
rather
confusing to me. So, it should be simple enough.
Best regards,
Ruhmwolf
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