Free Kurrenschrift (Suetterlin) TTF font

[Lars Erik Bryld]

After much searching, I finally managed to find some decent images of
the Old German calligraphic handwriting, which was called
Kurrentschrift (sometimes incorrectly Suetterlin). I have had it
converted into a quite nice TTF-font.

This True Type Font has been based on the Old German handwriting as it
was taught in Schleswig and Germany around Year 1900. If you study
sources from that time and before, it is important to be familiar with
this writing style. The font is free for personal use.

The special characters "short s" and ß are used pressing the ½ and §
buttons respectively.

Test and download from:
http://www.bryld.info/download.php

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Lars Erik Bryld

[Lars Erik Bryld]

Scripsit Mona:

After much searching, I finally managed to find some decent images
of the Old German calligraphic handwriting, which was called
Kurrentschrift (sometimes incorrectly Suetterlin). I have had it
converted into a quite nice TTF-font.


Test and download from: http://www.bryld.info/download.php


Thank you very much!! I have been wanting such a font, but didn't
want to spend the $25 to buy it.

I happen to prefer my own, naturally, but there are other free
versions, such as:

http://www.altearmee.de/schriften.htm

Font is updated, BTW. I have discovered, that not alle keyboard
possess a ½ button, so the short s (round s) can now also be used
through the # button.



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Regards
Lars Erik Bryld

[Robert Heiling]

Lars Erik Bryld wrote:

snip

Font is updated, BTW. I have discovered, that not alle keyboard
possess a ½ button, so the short s (round s) can now also be used
through the # button.

The other symbols § / ß are not on US keyboards either (at least not on
the 3 that I just double-checked). I currently type ctl-alt-s in order
to get the ß.

Bob

[Lars Erik Bryld]

Scripsit Robert Heiling:

The other symbols § / ß are not on US keyboards either (at least not
on the 3 that I just double-checked). I currently type ctl-alt-s in
order to get the ß.

You cannot access § directly from a US keyboard ???

The keyboard used in the country who manages to feed ten times as many
lawyers than engineers. Sehr odd!

The signs have been added to the accent grave and tilde as well, now.



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Med venlig hilsen
Lars Erik Bryld

[71073511]

have a look at this programme at address
http://www.textpad.com/download/index.html


The character are included within. Failing this you could always use the
Character
map within your system programme.

The other thing that you could also look at on XP, is a little known
programme called osk.exe

Regards Stephen SG




"Lars Erik Bryld" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
| After much searching, I finally managed to find some decent images of
| the Old German calligraphic handwriting, which was called
| Kurrentschrift (sometimes incorrectly Suetterlin). I have had it
| converted into a quite nice TTF-font.
|
| This True Type Font has been based on the Old German handwriting as it
| was taught in Schleswig and Germany around Year 1900. If you study
| sources from that time and before, it is important to be familiar with
| this writing style. The font is free for personal use.
|
| The special characters "short s" and ß are used pressing the ½ and §
| buttons respectively.
|
| Test and download from:
| http://www.bryld.info/download.php
|
| --
| Regards
| Lars Erik Bryld

[Robert Heiling]

Lars Erik Bryld wrote:

Scripsit Robert Heiling:

The other symbols § / ß are not on US keyboards either (at least not
on the 3 that I just double-checked). I currently type ctl-alt-s in
order to get the ß.

You cannot access § directly from a US keyboard ???

It's not on any of *my* keytops.

The keyboard used in the country who manages to feed ten times as many
lawyers than engineers. Sehr odd!

Ahhh. You must have it confused with $. My keyboard does have one of
those. The § is used by silly people like genealogists who like to
document valid sources for statements like that one you just made.

Bob

[71073511]

Robert you will find it as part of "Unicode", etc

Þߥµ§?¢

Stephen
"Robert Heiling" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| Lars Erik Bryld wrote:
| >
| > Scripsit Robert Heiling:
| >
| > > The other symbols § / ß are not on US keyboards either (at least not
| > > on the 3 that I just double-checked). I currently type ctl-alt-s in
| > > order to get the ß.
| >
| > You cannot access § directly from a US keyboard ???
|
| It's not on any of *my* keytops.
|
| > The keyboard used in the country who manages to feed ten times as many
| > lawyers than engineers. Sehr odd!
|
| Ahhh. You must have it confused with $. My keyboard does have one of
| those. The § is used by silly people like genealogists who like to
| document valid sources for statements like that one you just made.
|
| Bob

[Robert Heiling]

What in the world is that in response to?

Robert

71073511 wrote:

Robert you will find it as part of "Unicode", etc

Þߥµ§?¢

Stephen
"Robert Heiling" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| Lars Erik Bryld wrote:
|
| > Scripsit Robert Heiling:
|
| > > The other symbols § / ß are not on US keyboards either (at least not
| > > on the 3 that I just double-checked). I currently type ctl-alt-s in
| > > order to get the ß.
|
| > You cannot access § directly from a US keyboard ???
|
| It's not on any of *my* keytops.
|
| > The keyboard used in the country who manages to feed ten times as many
| > lawyers than engineers. Sehr odd!
|
| Ahhh. You must have it confused with $. My keyboard does have one of
| those. The § is used by silly people like genealogists who like to
| document valid sources for statements like that one you just made.
|
| Bob

[71073511]

I was mealy pointing out to you where to find these characters,
as you seem to think they appeared on your keyboard,
the symbol $ along with other characters §.
As for your Short cut this depends on what programme you are running.



Stephen


"Robert Heiling" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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|
| What in the world is that in response to?
|
| Robert
|
| 71073511 wrote:
| >
| > Robert you will find it as part of "Unicode", etc
| >
| > Þߥµ§?¢
| >
| > Stephen
| > "Robert Heiling" <[email protected]> wrote in message
| > news:[email protected]...
| > | Lars Erik Bryld wrote:
| > | >
| > | > Scripsit Robert Heiling:
| > | >
| > | > > The other symbols § / ß are not on US keyboards either (at least
not
| > | > > on the 3 that I just double-checked). I currently type ctl-alt-s
in
| > | > > order to get the ß.
| > | >
| > | > You cannot access § directly from a US keyboard ???
| > |
| > | It's not on any of *my* keytops.
| > |
| > | > The keyboard used in the country who manages to feed ten times as
many
| > | > lawyers than engineers. Sehr odd!
| > |
| > | Ahhh. You must have it confused with $. My keyboard does have one of
| > | those. The § is used by silly people like genealogists who like to
| > | document valid sources for statements like that one you just made.
| > |
| > | Bob

[Lars Erik Bryld]

Scripsit Robert Heiling:

The keyboard used in the country who manages to feed ten times as
many lawyers than engineers. Sehr odd!

Ahhh. You must have it confused with $. My keyboard does have one
of those. The § is used by silly people like genealogists who
like to document valid sources for statements like that one you
just made.

At least in this country, § also denotes the individual paragraphs
that together constitute a law. The § is here called a "paragraf".

Go figure...

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Med venlig hilsen
Lars Erik Bryld

[Robert Heiling]

Lars Erik Bryld wrote:

Scripsit Robert Heiling:

The keyboard used in the country who manages to feed ten times as
many lawyers than engineers. Sehr odd!

Ahhh. You must have it confused with $. My keyboard does have one
of those. The § is used by silly people like genealogists who
like to document valid sources for statements like that one you
just made.

At least in this country, § also denotes the individual paragraphs
that together constitute a law. The § is here called a "paragraf".

Indeed, but that statement doesn't address its presence or absence on a
keyboard. You will find that the other Scandanavian keyboards follow
your same pattern, but that UK and some others also lack that particular
keytop symbol. Perhaps some pictures would help you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Danish

Go figure...

I have. In spite of my hinted request for a source, I am still trying to
figure where you get your statistics from.

Med venlig hilsen

Didn't you mean ovenlig?

Bob

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:28:10 +0100, Lars Erik Bryld
<[email protected]> declaimed the following in
soc.genealogy.computing:

At least in this country, § also denotes the individual paragraphs
that together constitute a law. The § is here called a "paragraf".

I've always known that as "SubSection" (two overlapping S

characters)... Paragraph is ¶
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[Lars Erik Bryld]

Scripsit Robert Heiling:

The keyboard used in the country who manages to feed ten times as
many lawyers than engineers. Sehr odd!

Ahhh. You must have it confused with $. My keyboard does have one
of those. The § is used by silly people like genealogists who
like to document valid sources for statements like that one you
just made.

[...snip...]

In spite of my hinted request for a source, I am still trying to
figure where you get your statistics from.

Sorry, your hint was too subtle for me to notice. I didn't source my
passing remark, because according to the American genealogy sage
Elisabeth Shown Mills: "Any statement of fact that is not common
knowledge must carry its own individual statement of source", and I
thought that I was quoting obviously common knowledge.

Nevertheless, it's an archaic statement from "Harpers Index", which I
believe I first saw quoted in a book by Bill Bryson, which one I
forget. It may have been corrupted from a international comparison of
lawyer/ingineer ratios.

Med venlig hilsen

Didn't you mean ovenlig?

Nope. Unfriendly in Danish would be "uvenlig", and I wasn't trying to
be unfriendly - not in this thread, anyway.


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Med venlig hilsen
Lars Erik Bryld

[Robert Heiling]

Lars Erik Bryld wrote:

Scripsit Robert Heiling:

The keyboard used in the country who manages to feed ten times as
many lawyers than engineers. Sehr odd!

Ahhh. You must have it confused with $. My keyboard does have one
of those. The § is used by silly people like genealogists who
like to document valid sources for statements like that one you
just made.

[...snip...]

In spite of my hinted request for a source, I am still trying to
figure where you get your statistics from.

Sorry, your hint was too subtle for me to notice. I didn't source my
passing remark, because according to the American genealogy sage
Elisabeth Shown Mills: "Any statement of fact that is not common
knowledge must carry its own individual statement of source", and I
thought that I was quoting obviously common knowledge.

Take care to observe the word "fact".

Nevertheless, it's an archaic statement from "Harpers Index", which I
believe I first saw quoted in a book by Bill Bryson, which one I
forget. It may have been corrupted from a international comparison of
lawyer/ingineer ratios.

Then you now state it may not be fact? To make a long story short,
you're unable to post a credible citation? What do you suppose the
actual ratio is then?

Med venlig hilsen

Didn't you mean ovenlig?

Nope. Unfriendly in Danish would be "uvenlig", and I wasn't trying to
be unfriendly - not in this thread, anyway.

I'll have to take your word for it.

Bob

[Lars Erik Bryld]

Scripsit Robert Heiling:

"Any statement of fact that is not common knowledge must carry its
own individual statement of source", and I thought that I was
quoting obviously common knowledge.

Take care to observe the word "fact".

Take care to observe the word "common knowledge", and I'll observe
that you obviously do challenge that particular assumption.

Nevertheless, it's an archaic statement from "Harpers Index", which
I believe I first saw quoted in a book by Bill Bryson, which one I
forget. It may have been corrupted from a international comparison
of lawyer/ingineer ratios.

Then you now state it may not be fact?

No, i don't "state" anything. I'm trying to accommodate your
objections, thereby definitely divulging that I'm not a lawyer
myself.

To make a long story short, you're unable to post a credible
citation?

If Harpers is incredible, sure.

What do you suppose the actual ratio is then?

Please, enlighten.

Nope. Unfriendly in Danish would be "uvenlig", and I wasn't trying
to be unfriendly - not in this thread, anyway.

I'll have to take your word for it.

Would that be credible?


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Med venlig hilsen
Lars Erik Bryld