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In 2010, the Federal German Office for Cartography (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie) issued an official recommendation that the capital ß rather than "SS" should be used in all-caps spelling of geographical names which contain ß:
http://141.74.33.52/stagn/Portals/0/101125_TopR5.pdf
The 2006 spelling reform in Germany clarified the status of ß as a "single consonant letter", while previously it was a hybrid of a single and a double consonant letter. The new spelling rules changed ß to ss in all words where it followed a short vowel, while kept it when it follows a long vowel. So now ß is completely in sync with other letters, and the system is completely logical.
Except in the uppercase. Using the new rules, the spelling "GROSS" for "groß" changes the pronunciation of the word (forcing the O to be short), so keeping this bizarre capitalization rule is very confusing to people who only learn the new spelling rules, i.e. young speakers of German.
Linguistic intuition, common sense and the trends already showing all suggest that the uppercase ß will find wider adoption in future.
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Adam
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On 08.05.2013, at 12:14, LisaLaus [email protected] wrote:
Hello,
please bear in mind that the German "ß" exists only and exclusively as a lower case character. Therefore, in the SC fonts there should appear "SS" instead of a pseudo-capitalized "ß". I do know, of course, that there exist some persons campaigning for a capital "ß" but this is in no way an official tendency and in all probability never will be. To the contrary, one should better consider this leftover from the old German Fraktur (Garamond is Latin) as obsolete, as practised in Switzerland – but this may be a separate discussion. For the time being and in the official future, a capital "ß" simply does not exist and not implementing it would save the labour of correcting this letter manually whereever the SC font is used. Besides that: great, great work. Thank you for it.
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@LisaLaus I do not agree with you on the ß in general. Its new rules after the spelling reform are the only thing that committee got right and the swiss orthography always causes a hickup when reading: Massanzug looks for me like a combination with english “mass” (I read more english than swiss german). However, I do agree on your view to obey official rules. There was a similar quest already which I did follow but I forgot EBG12-sc. I’ll change it there too, but be assured that the day the Duden incorporates the ẞ EBG will reflect this change :)
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@LisaLaus I do not agree with you on
the ß in general. Its new rules after the spelling reform are
the only thing that committee got right and the swiss
orthography always causes a hickup when reading: Massanzug looks
for me like a combination with english “mass” (I read more
english than swiss german). However, I do agree on your view to
obey official rules. There was a similar quest already which I
did follow but I forgot EBG12-sc. I’ll change it there too, but
be assured that the day the Duden incorporates the ẞ EBG will
reflect this change :)
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Thank you. :-) One question: How do
I get access to Contextual
Ligatures (final
s)? In Quarkxpress, even activating Contextual Ligatures does not show
them.And just for
my information: Do you plan to publish a new version of
EBG12 in the nearer
future?Best
regards,Lisa
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I don’t know what you mean with contextual ligatures. What should they ligate?
I might do a minor release at the beginning of june.
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I don’t know what you mean with contextual ligatures. What
should they ligate?
as described and shown on p. 7 in specimen.pdf, see attachment.
I might do a minor release at the beginning of june.
fine, thx
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Ah, in the italic font. Well, I have no idea. Contrary to what I wrote in the specimen, it should be on by default. Which version of EBG are you using?
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Ah, in the italic font. Well, I have no idea. Contrary to what
I wrote in the specimen, it should be on by default. Which
version of EBG are you using?
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Ok. Sadly I don’t have Quarkxpress, so this is a black box for me. It might be a bug in that application. All the tools I have at my disposition render correctly (xetex, luatex, fontforge, firefox and chromium). Do you know some Quarkxpress guru who could help here?
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Ok. Sadly I don’t have Quarkxpress, so this is a black box for
me. It might be a bug in that application. All the tools I have
at my disposition render correctly (xetex, luatex, fontforge,
firefox and chromium). Do you know some Quarkxpress guru who
could help here?
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I tried in Adobe Indesign. Although
it is an old
version (CS2) it shows these ligatures correctly. So you are
right assuming a bug in Quarkxpress and I have to contact them directly. THX for for your help!Lisa
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I cannot find the ligature glyphs for final s after a, e, i and u in the EBG12 italic font. Can you give me the exact location?
THX, Lisa
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They don’t have a code point. Please send me an email ([email protected])
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Please design the ẞ for EB-Garamond.
The Duden isn’t the one and only authority in questions of German orthography.
And here you have a Duden incorparating the ẞ: http://www.typografie.info/temp/GrosseDuden.jpg
So you can go ahead and include one, maybe as stylistic alternative.
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The ẞ already exists in EBG12 and EBGSC12.
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Ok, maybe it’s luatex’s fault then, that I can’t get an ẞ when using luatex:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/11430958
Using the latest version of EBG.
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I can’t reproduce your problem. I’m getting ẞ both with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX with your mwe. There’s a difference in the engine versions but only in the build date, they’re both the latest from TL2013:
XeTeX 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3-2013060708 (TeX Live 2013)
and
LuaTeX, Version beta-0.76.0-2013061708 (TeX Live 2013) (rev 4627)
May I see a pdf from your lualatex run?
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34624431/luatex-test.pdf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34624431/luatex-test.log
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34624431/xetex-test.pdf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34624431/xetex-test.log
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I think I found the issue. Somehow luatex uses EBG08 scaled up for the default font size of 11 pt for scrartcl whilst xetex scales EBG12 down.
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in this case, luatex is using EBG08 where indeed I haven’t drawn the ẞ yet. Do you perhaps have an older version of the font somewhere else on your machine?
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Looks deleting luatex’s font name cache did the trick.
All version of EB-Garamond that I have are symlinks to the latest downloads.
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@georgd Would you consider adding a capital ⟨ß⟩ to the lowercase small-caps font? Compare:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\begin{document}
\textsc{Maße}
\libertine
\textsc{Maße}
\end{document}
This would be helpful e.g. for bibliographies with names in small-caps, where it might be desirable retain the ⟨ß⟩.
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@doncherry It’s already there. Try with \addfontfeature{RawFeature=+cv47} or \addfontfeature{CharacterVariant=47}.
It might be interesting to provide a package option for this (also for libertine which provides similar functionality but with the capital ß shape as default) but you’d have to request it from Bob Tennent.
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@georgd Indeed, thank you for that hint! I e-mailed Bob Tennent about this issue.
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