Insert barless f (ſ) into document?

Question

I am looking to use the barless f as shown in the title, but the only option seems to be this (ſ) which still retains half of the bar. Are there any solutions to this or relevant packages that I can use?

Many thanks

I think this is a "long s" (U+017F). See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/538196/how-can-i-produce-the-old-glyph-long-s-in-latex — mbert, Jun 03 '23 at 22:18
as @mbert says, that is an s not an f, see https://w3c.github.io/xml-entities/unicode-names.html?Insert%20barless%20f%20(%C5%BF)%20into%20document? — David Carlisle, Jun 03 '23 at 22:24
fonts - Bar-less “f” and finetuning existing characters - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange perhaps. But depends on what's the semantic meaning of your desired character solution may vary. — user202729, Jun 04 '23 at 02:25
Welcome. // Just being curious: in which context or for which purpose will you use it? — MS-SPO, Jun 04 '23 at 06:50

egreg · Answer 1 · 2023-06-04T15:27:45.127

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What's a “barless f”?

You perhaps mean the “long s”, which is Unicode U+017F. Some fonts have no ornament, some fonts have a small dent.

It's a choice of the font designer.

edited Jun 04 '23 at 15:27

answered Jun 04 '23 at 13:57

egreg

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@barbarabeeton Typo fixed, thanks! – egreg Jun 04 '23 at 15:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 04 '23 at 09:28

Unicode has

U+0283 ʃ LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH
U+AB4D ꭍ lATIN SMALL LETTER BASELINE ESH
U+017F ſ LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S

If the font you are using has the characters they can be used without any special markup. For example the Windows Times New Roman, with lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
U+0283 ʃ  LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH
U+AB4D ꭍ  LATIN SMALL LETTER BASELINE ESH
U+017F ſ LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S
\end{document}

Insert barless f (ſ) into document?

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