[OS X TeX] Gothic

[John McChesney-Young]

At 11:18 AM -0500 2/3/08, Itamar Francez wrote:

>I want to use a gothic "F" in a document, and I read that some 
>gothic fonts come with the MAcTex installation. How do I get a 
>letter in the document to be in gothic font? >>

As an alternative to the math approach suggested by Matthew Leingang, 
the yfonts package will do it. This works on my machine with MacTeX 
installed:

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{yfonts}
\begin{document}
\textswab{F}\\
\textgoth{F}\\
\textfrak{F}\\
\end{document}

See:

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/yfonts/readme

for documentation.

Alternatively, you can use XeLaTeX with a suitable font:

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Kleukens-Fraktur}

\begin{document}
F
\end{document}

See: http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/blackletter/index.htm for a 
nice selection of blackletter fonts (among those recommended by 
Joachim Trinkwitz on the XeTeX list: 
http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2006-August/004962.html)

John


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