yfonts-otf package

Description

This bundle provides OpenType versions of the Old German fonts yfrak’,ygoth’ and yswab’ designed by Yannis Haralambous in METAFONT (1990).

Contents

• yfrak.otf, ygoth.otf, yswab.otf: the three OpenType fonts
• yfonts-otf.sty LaTeX style file defining the three font families
• yfonts-otf.pdf Documentation in PDF format
• yfonts-otf.ltx LaTeX source of yfonts-otf.pdf
• Erlkonig.pdf Example: Goethe's poem typeset with these fonts
• Erlkonig.ltx LaTeX source of Erlkonig.pdf
• README.md (this file)

Installation

This package is meant to be installed automatically by TeXLive, MikTeX, etc. Otherwise, the package can be installed under TEXMFHOME or TEXMFLOCAL, f.i. yfonts-otf in directory texmf-local/fonts/opentype/public/yfonts-otf/ and oldgerm-otf.sty in directory texmf-local/tex/latex/yfonts-otf/. Documentation files and their sources can go to directory texmf-local/doc/fonts/public/yfonts-otf/

Don't forget to rebuild the file database (mktexlsr or so) if you install under TEXMFLOCAL.

License

• The three fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License,

Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

• The other files are distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project

Public License from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt. Either version 1.3 or, at your option, any later version.

Changes

• First public version: 0.30

• v0.40: Substantial changes following suggestions by Keno Wehr:
  • oldgerm-otf.sty has been renamed to yfonts-otf.sty, oldgerm-otf.sty is kept for compatibility; it inputs yfonts-otf.sty.
  • Ligatures features reorganised: dlig and alig features deleted, only rlig, liga (and hlig for ygoth only) are used.
  • Ligature tz was missing in yswab.otf, added now.
  • Hungarian Umlaut was missing in yfrak.otf and yswab.otf, added now.
  • The s variant (long/short) is chosen automatically (code borrowed from Unifraktur Maguntia).
• v0.42:
  • Added characters ÀÁÄÈÉËÌÍÏÒÓÖÙÚÜ (uppercase of all available lowercase characters); Ä->Ae, Ö->Oe, Ü->Ue.
  • ygoth.otf: fixed right bearing of the longs variants. Missing Ligatures longsi added for the long s and its variant.
  • yfonts-otf.sty: char"200C deleted in longs definition so that longslongs prints the ligature ſſ.
  • Documentation fixes.
• v0.43:
  • yfrak.otf, yswab.otf: missing ligatures fi, fl, ffi, ffl added.
  • yswab.otf: features "cv01" and "cv02" added (variants for "!" and "?").
  • ygoth.otf: feature "Alternate=1" renamed "StylisticSet=1" as it didn't work with XeLaTeX. Fixed inconsistent bearings.

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