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Bug#224692: general: Hard to find math Fraktur font



On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:53:29AM +0500, Victor Porton wrote:
> It is hard to find a font (I'm searching preferably a scalable font for X)
> which contains math Fraktur symbols (ones used e.g. to denote Lie
> algebras). Note that Unifont doesn't have these symbols. (These symbols are
> even above 65536 in Unicode.)

> The only way I've found to do this is to install all the font packages (too
> much downloading) and test them manually.

> Two things need to be done:

> 1. Add the word Fraktur (it is probably similar in the sense to the word
> "gothic" but I'm not sure) into desctiption(s) of the appropriate font
> package(s).

Have you actually *found* such "appropriate font packages"?  These
recommendations are all well and good, but help not at all if the reason
you can't find Fraktur fonts is because they don't exist.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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