Glagolitic fonts

© by Darko Zubrinic, Zagreb (1995)

1. TeX fonts

The author of these lines has created a set of TeX and METAFONT files, containg 367 symbols:
  • Croatian Glagolitic (round, angular, Baska Tablet, quickscript, about 60 ligatures, Baromic broken ligatures, calligraphic letters),
  • Croatian Cyrillic,
  • stechak ornaments,
  • Croatian wattle patterns,
The file croatian.tar.gz should be gunzip-ed, then use ``tar xvf croatian.tar'', which will automatically create a subdirectory /croatian/.

This package is also on the following sites:

  • University of Heidelberg mirror (Germany) of the CTAN archive. The fonts are described in my paper

    • Darko Zubrinic: Croatian fonts (pdf), TUGboat, Vol 17, No 1, March 1996.

    There exist as many as 53 mirror sites of CTAN archive in 27 countries throughout the world! So you can obtain my Croatian TeX and metafont files faster from the closest mirror site using the searching engine. Just write croatian into the search box and click the button. Similarly you can also find closest mirror sites for many other languages (updated in 1997).

    Pick the server nearest you:

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    This is a slight modification of Peter Flynn's searching engine at TUGboat

 

  • Compuserve FLEFO, Foreign Language Forum, Slavic/East European Section (croatian.zip; thanks to Zeljko Lupic, Compuserve, Canada). If you should use these fonts, I would deeply appreciate to inform me.

2. Fonts for Windows

Glagolitic fonts for Windows in several formats, including TrueType, are available:

  • round and angular glagolitic font, created by Zoran Rajic, improved and extended by Eugen Divjak (October 2005), improved by Ivica Glavan (April 2008, no more problems with Croatian diacritics)
  • round and angular glagolitic font, created by dr. Emil Hersak ("multilanguage support" should be installed, then the russian driver, copy kbdru.kbd into Windows/system directory so that russian kbd changes window's default kbd; for "yat" use insert/symbol).
    I express my deepest gratitude to dr. Hersak for his font, which is a gift to Drustvo prijatelja glagoljice, and which we gladly share with you.
  • Krcka glagoljska kurziva, KRCKAN.TTF - glagolitic quickscript from the island of Krk, created by Eugen Divjak, October 2005
  • Vrbnik Missal style (angular glagolitic, 1456), created by Natalija Nikpalj Polondak (this nice font will be further improved).
  • Baromich breviary style (angular glagolitic, 1493 incunabulum), beautiful font created by Frane Paro and Anton Katunar, including some exotic ligatures, special symbols and initials.

Unicode Croatian Glagolitic

APPEAL: It would be of interest to create a set of some 15 to 20 different true-type fonts for windows corresponding to various important Croatian glagolitic documents of very different styles (triangular, round, angular, quickscript). Until now we have only three. For the Croatian cyrillic we have none.

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