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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/yfonts/readme b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/yfonts/readme new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..9465319a758 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/yfonts/readme @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ +=> dieser Text in deutscher Sprache: Datei "liesmich" <= + +************************************************************ +* * +* yfonts.sty v1.3 * +* * +* A package for using old german fonts with LaTeX2e * +* * +************************************************************ + Walter Schmidt + <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de> + 2003-01-08 + +The macro package "yfonts" provides a LaTeX interface to the +blackletter (old german) fonts designed by Yannis +Haralambous: Gotisch, Schwabacher, Fraktur and the baroque +initials. + +Despite their non-standard encoding, these fonts are fully +integrated into LaTeX's font management (NFSS), and the +package can be used together with german.sty. A macro is +provided which starts a paragraph with an embedded initial. + + +LaTeX files +----------- +yfonts.dtx LaTeX source +yfonts.ins installation script +frktest.tex short example + + +The fonts +--------- +The package yfonts.sty supports the following fonts: + +ygoth Gotisch from <ctan>/fonts/gothic/ygoth +yswab Schwabacher <ctan>/fonts/gothic/yswab +yfrak Fraktur <ctan>/fonts/gothic/yfrak +ysmfrak Fraktur (variant) <ctan>/fonts/gothic/yfrak +yinitas initials <ctan>/fonts/gothic/yinit + +It depends on your TeX system, how the above fonts are to be +installed. This topic is NOT discussed here. + +*** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING + +The font "ygoth" is known to produce Metafont errors. In +rare cases such problems have been observed with the other +fonts, too. This has nothing to do with the package +yfonts.sty, it is due to incorrect Metafont code of the +fonts. + +Questions and bug reports on this problem should be sent +to Yannis Haralambous <yannis@fluxus-virus.com>, who has +designed the old german fonts. + + +Installing the LaTeX package +---------------------------- +Put the files yfonts.dtx and yfonts.ins into a common +directory. On a TDS-compliant TeX system, use: + + texmf/source/latex/yfonts + +Run LaTeX on yfonts.ins to generate the macro package file +yfonts.sty. Move it to a directory where TeX searches for +input files; in a TDS compliant system this should be: + + texmf/tex/latex/yfonts + +If you have properly set up your docstrip program and the +above directory exists already, this is done automagically! + +Run LaTeX on yfonts.dtx to typeset the documentation of the +LaTeX package. The documentation is written in german, so +you will need german.sty and the german hyphenation +patterns. + +Run LaTeX on the example frktest.tex to see an example using +the blackletter fonts; again, german.sty is required. + + +A short (and incomplete) english guide to yfonts.sty +---------------------------------------------------- +The commands \gothfamily, \swabfamily, \frakfamily and +\initfamily switch to Gotisch, Schwabacher, Fraktur or +initials within the current group. + +\textgoth{...}, \textswab{...}, \textfrak{...} and +\textinit{...} typeset their argument using old german +fonts. + +Size changing command are honored; available sizes are 10pt, +10.95pt, 12pt ... 24.88pt. + +There are no further font series or shapes. You may however +use Schwabacher for emphasizing within a Fraktur +environment, thus following historical practice. + +The regular \baselineskip is too large for the old german +fonts; the command \fraklines selects a suitable +\baselineskip for Fraktur or Schwabacher within the current +group; you must repeat it after any size changing command. + +Some ASCII symbols are missing (there is e.g. no ";" in the +Schwabacher font, and none of the fonts has a "@") + +A paragraph in Fraktur which starts with an embedded +initial: + + {\frakfamily\fraklines + \yinipar{E}in Absatz ... + + \par + } + +\yinipar begins a new paragraph (like \par) and suppresses +indentation (like \noindent). The end of the paragraph +(blank line or \par) must be within in the same group as the +command \fraklines. + +Use the regular LaTeX commands for umlauts, accents and +special symbols. You may additionally load german.sty. + +Important ligatures: + + *a *e *o *u produce a special version of the umlauts with + a small e instead of the dots. Load the package with the + option [varumlaut] to get them with the regular commands, + like \"a or "a, too. + + s: is the so-called final s + + the sharp s may be produced by \ss, "s or the ligature sz + +The command \etc produces a once popular symbol for "etc."; +it is available in the Fraktur font only. + + +History +------- +v1.3 <2003-01-08> \AA and \aa fixed. + +v1.2 <1999-05-12> License agreement changed to LPPL. + +v1.2 <1998-09-10> New: \yinipar + +v1.1 <1997-09-11> + + +% finis + |