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From: davidra@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (David Rabson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: using Fraktur for text
Message-ID: <10495@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 Jul 90 22:22:13 GMT
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell U., Ithaca NY
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Mr. Hosek (dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu) asks us not to use Euler Fraktur for
text.  Understanding his concern, I will yet point out that one gets
reasonably good results by changing a few parameters:



\magnification=1000
\baselineskip=16.8pt

\font\eufm=eufm14                               %Black Forest Font

\fontdimen2\eufm=.333em
\fontdimen3\eufm=.166em
\fontdimen4\eufm=.110em
{\eufm
Once upon a time, in the great Black Forest by the Rhine,
there lived an evil sorcerer feared
equally by the villagefolk and by

etc.
}




To my untrained eyes, at any rate, this doesn't look so bad.

David Rabson
davidra@helios.tn.cornell.edu