lutz.haseloff wrote @ Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:56:44 +0100:

You can try following file:

% engine=xetex \font\myfont="Vollkorn" at 12pt\myfont \starttext ſ \stoptext

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Every otf/ttf font containing a ſ will work.

Live i get: http://live.contextgarden.net/output.cgi?id=pOm785

and locally:

-------------------------------------8<------------------------------------- ... kpathsea: Running mktexmf Vollkorn ! I can't find file `Vollkorn'. ... ------------------------------------->8-------------------------------------

So I guess, I don't have that font locally. Maybe there is a good standard font with many special characters? It would be nice if other people could also easily compile the tex source. Is it generally a superior font for special characters?

How do I go about finding a font that contains all my special characters?

I have at least ſ (long s), aͤ (a^e SMALL e ABOVE), ʒ etc. Most are from a historical context. And a lot of ligatures. As I understand Mac OS is able to produce arbitrary ligatures. But will this work on a Linux too?

I followed Tacos advise and am subscribed now.

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

I didn't check yet what characters are contained in which, but I guess ConTeXt would need some logic to enable proper typesetting of blackletter text, e.g. handling s and ſ. Have to look at Yannis' efforts for LaTeX, too. And I guess I must recode these fonts to follow Unicode standards (should be manageable with a fontforge script).

Do you mean Yannis' yfrac etc.? IIRC, that depends on his special fonts. While browsing, I found this package:

http://www.lg.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/~ynagata/khmpackage.html

Best wishes, Taco

PS "gothic latex" is an interesting search term :-)

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Am 2007-11-18 um 10:30 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:

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I didn't check yet what characters are contained in which, but I guess ConTeXt would need some logic to enable proper typesetting of blackletter text, e.g. handling s and ſ. Have to look at Yannis' efforts for LaTeX, too. And I guess I must recode these fonts to follow Unicode standards (should be manageable with a fontforge script).

Do you mean Yannis' yfrac etc.? IIRC, that depends on his special fonts. While browsing, I found this package: http://www.lg.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/~ynagata/khmpackage.html

Thank you. I'm trying to follow the most modern approach: OpenType features - if I manage to put the logic into the font, it's usable also with InDesign. Even if I don't know if ConTeXt (i.e. XeTeX/ LuaTeX) will handle stuff like alternative characters well. At the moment I'm struggling filling the GSUB tables with FontForge... (it's easy *if* you know exactly what you do)

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PS "gothic latex" is an interesting search term :-)

I guess one will find more black than letters and more masked than type faces. ;-)

subs should work ok in luatex

you can also define your own (see fea files in distribution)

Hans

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Am 2007-11-18 um 10:02 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:

Andreas Hauser wrote:

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How do I go about finding a font that contains all my special characters?

That's the problem, and it depends somewhat on what you are doing.

If your text will be historical, you will probably need lots of old ligatures and abbreviation glyphs that may not be available in any current font at all.

I just found the MUFI homepage (Mediaeval Unicode Font Initiative), they seem to target mainly Old Norse: http://www.mufi.info/ From their specs I learned that the combining e and o "accents" are already in the Unicode standard (0364).

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