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@ 2008-10-23 21:14:00
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Old English font not include in TeX?
I'm working on a document where I need to typeset something in Old English. Particularly, I need to type an eth. There are at least two Old English fonts for TeX available, my pick being Computer Modern Old English.

I'm surprised to find that my TeX distribution doesn't include (that I can find) any Old English fonts. I have to install it by hand. This is actually the first time I've had to do something like this--Things as obscure as Linear A are included by default.

I never thought I'd have to learn how to install a new font into TeX.

EDIT: Elvish is also included by default. I'm clearly missing something here.


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[info]adammaker
2008-10-24 03:46 am UTC (link)
is it not in 'archaic' subsection?
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/docs/dox/asax.html


Edited at 2008-10-24 04:04 am UTC

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[info]adammaker
2008-10-24 04:18 am UTC (link)
Julian Bradfield's font for typesetting Old English in TeX -- this supplies
extra characters for Computer Modern. The extra characters are eth, Eth,
Thorn, thorn, yogh, Yogh and Polish ogonek. There are two styles of thorn,
but I note that there is no wynn. You may have to create an empty file, or
rename a file -- I forget exactly what I had to do. Some of these characters
can also be found in the International Phonetic Alphabet font as well, but
Julian's are much more convenient for working with Old English.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jcb/fonts/

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[info]appleang
2008-10-24 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Huh, I guess this is the same thing as the dd in Gwynedd and similar? I didn't realize there was a special character for it (because I had never thought about it, admittedly).

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[info]yarrowkat
2008-10-24 03:33 pm UTC (link)
it's the same phoneme, but it's represented with a different letter in OE than in Welsh (which is where the dd of Gwynedd comes in).

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