Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A style of black letter formerly used in German manuscripts and printing.
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- noun typography A style of
black letter type , used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries. - noun US A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Northern Europe, Germany and Britain, printing was first developed with the gothic fraktur style of lettering.
A Passion « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006
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Once choked on a pretzel while attempting to decipher an 18th-century Pennsylvania Dutch fraktur.
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Pennsylvania has long been a hotbed for Americana collectors, between Amish quilts, fraktur and all that Pennsylvania German painted furniture.
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You may notice that some characters are missing (such as capital N fraktur style).
Planet Ubuntu 2010
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You can type in those math characters using Insert → Special Character … in OpenOffice. org as shown below. mathematical alphanumeric symbols (fraktur style) in Plane 1.
Planet Ubuntu 2010
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Then if you held down the Option key, typed 1D40F and released the Option key, you'd see a math fraktur F.
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PC Word's alt+x Unicode input method is more flexible since it allows you to edit the code, insert higher-plane characters like math italic and fraktur and do the inverse: replace a character by its
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Features performances by Ephrata Cloister Chorus at 2, 3 and 4 p.m., plus book signing by fraktur artist Ruthanne Hartung and display by potter Christine Tosten-Souders from 1 to 4 p.m.
Berks county news 2008
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Kathy Lloyd: In this note we compute Leibniz algebra deformations of the three-dimensional Heisenberg Lie algebra [fraktur n] and compare it to its Lie deformations.
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(mathscr), fraktur (mathfrak) and blackboard (mathbb) fonts, and implemented the translation to Unicode chars: ℱ,,.
vanishedone commented on the word fraktur
FrakturWeb: 'Fraktur is a folk art form practiced by Pennsylvania Germans principally from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The name derives from that of a distinctive German script marked by "fractured" pen strokes and the form has clear roots in European folk culture.'
January 10, 2009
reesetee commented on the word fraktur
Ah, we know it well in these parts. :-) Also see black letter.
January 11, 2009