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*                     yfonts.sty v1.2                     *
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*    A package for using old german fonts with LaTeX2e    *
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The macro package `yfonts' provides a LaTeX interface to the
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
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yfonts.dtx      LaTeX source
yfonts.ins      installation script
frktest.tex     short example


The fonts
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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

*** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING 

The font "ygoth" is known to produce METAFONT errors.  Just
tell METAFONT to ignore them; the result should be
satisfying.  In rare cases such problems have been observed
with the other fonts, too.



Installing the LaTeX package
----------------------------
Run LaTeX on yfonts.ins to generate yfonts.sty.  Move
yfonts.sty to a directory where LaTeX will find it.

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; again, german.sty is
required.


A short (and incomplete) english guide to yfonts.sty
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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 `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
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v1.2 <1998-09-10> New: \yinipar

v1.1 <1997-09-11>


Please send bug reports, suggestions and comments to ...
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Walter Schmidt
Schornbaumstrasse 2
91052 Erlangen
Germany
e-mail: wschmi@ibm.net

Please obtain my (email) adress from the latest version of 
this file.

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