German "Fraktur" Alphabet

[Taz]

Maybe this can help to recognise the letters on old German docs if you are having problems.

Regards Eddie

[redcross]

while it is a nice alphabet

it does not include the special letters

which anyone wanting to work with fractur

will need to know

[leigh kitchen]

Useful, I've printed a copy - now to see if anybody posts the special letters.....

[Taz]

while it is a nice alphabet

it does not include the special letters

which anyone wanting to work with fractur

will need to know

redcross,

If it's just the accents you mean, two dots added over the ?, ? & ? nothing special to remember, all that means is AE OE & UE.

? - ? - ? ------ end s ----- ch- ck- sz- tz ------ mm - nn

Regards Eddie.

Edited October 4, 2007 by Taz

[redcross]

no

what I had in mind were - not necessarily all

but ones I've had to know, & use -

the the sharp S or double ss or ess-zett

the tz

the ch

the ck

the thorn

the double f

the st

[sorry, no pictures]

in printing they are not so much trouble

but when written, it is possible to puzzle

for some time as to what it might be

[Taz]

Some of the specials are included in the second post the others found on this site in English.

Also with the keyboard entrys.

http://www.morscher.com/3r/fonts/fraktur.htm

Regards Eddie

[redcross]

nice example

the keyboard shortcuts work with some fonts

but not with all

depends on what scheme the fonts are encoded in

using the windows utility

keyboard map will let you know the correct codes for your font

I try to use Iso standard keyboard map ISO-8859-1

as some cannot handle UTF-8 well

[esp win98 users]

[bob lembke]

While I read a lot of (printed) Fraktur, and also read the script, and in fact have translated Czech and Slovene written in the script for a German dealer, I understood that there are two hand-writing systems, Suetterlin, and Kurrent, which are similar, but not the same. I have not seen the handwriting referred to as Fraktur. Is the term used for the superset of the two handwriting systems? I have never studied German in a formal class setting, and quite possibly have missed something here.

Bob Lembke

[Taz]

While I read a lot of (printed) Fraktur, and also read the script, and in fact have translated Czech and Slovene written in the script for a German dealer, I understood that there are two hand-writing systems, Suetterlin, and Kurrent, which are similar, but not the same. I have not seen the handwriting referred to as Fraktur. Is the term used for the superset of the two handwriting systems? I have never studied German in a formal class setting, and quite possibly have missed something here.

Bob Lembke

Bob,

As you correctly state Sutterlin and Kurrent are handwriting styles, fraktur is a typeface. Kurrent is the older of the two styles.

Regards Eddie.

Edited October 12, 2007 by Taz