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From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
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Subject: Re: Font testing
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Date: 29 Jun 90 21:35:26 GMT
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In article <9006290858.AA13864@jade.berkeley.edu>, A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.BITNET (Konrad Neuwirth) writes...
>There is a TeX file (plain) around that is called FNTBL.TEX
>that does exactly what you describe. It prints a font/page
>in the scheme the TeXbook does with the standard CMR10 font
>somewhere in the Appendix. And then it prints a small text
>(with no-math fonts, of course). Works rather well and should
>be available on a TeX server near you (or isn't it even on the
>standard distribution? I don't know! it just hangs there in my
>TeX:inputs directory).

The standard file along these lines is testfont.tex. It is part
of the standard TeX distribution and if for some reason you can't
find it, it is listed in Appendix H of the METAFONTbook.

-dh

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