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Subject: Re: using Fraktur for text
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Date: 2 Jul 90 04:47:00 GMT
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>A few additional notes... Having just looked at the AMSFONTS 2.0
>release of Euler Fraktur, I find that it has a minus sign in the
>hyphen position so if you have a hyphenation in \frak when it's
>used as a text font, something will be printed there, however,
>the minus sign is too large to use as a hyphen. There is also an
>Umlaut, but in x'7d rather than x'7f. Single opening and closing
>quotes are also present but again in non-standard positions.

I guess, once the funny-looking METAFONT is out, some kind soul with a
lot of spare time on his/her hands will eventually move the umlaut in
its proper position, or, better yet, add a pre-accented a, o, and u; but
I'd like to point out another thing that's seriously wrong with using
Euler Fraktur as a text font, which struck me right away when I tried
doing that: there are no ligatures! Even if you set just English, you
are supposed to have 'ch', 'ck', 'ft', and 'tz' ligs, because they look
*real* *weird* spelled out in Fraktur; and for Deutch one needs 'final'
(round) s, and es-zet; and in principle, it would be good to have the
usual 'ff', 'fi', 'fl'... (which don't look as terrible spelled out, but
would look better as ligs, as they are meant to be). I figure, someone
will do that too once the MF is out...

Dimitri Vulis
Department of Mathematics
City University of New York Graduate Center

Administrator of RUSTEX-L, the Russian TeX mailing list

P.S. The proper 'hyphen' for fraktur looks more like a slanted equal
sign.
P.P.S. I have somewhere a sheet with Fraktur-like Cyrillic letters; now
that's weird! :)