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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Malvern (meta-)font and MFjob program now available
Keywords: Malvern, MFjob, METAFONT, TeX, font, archive
Message-ID: <1yX8115w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 30 Apr 91 13:28:59 GMT
References: <4435@undis.cs.chalmers.se>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se (Alan Jeffrey) writes:
> Because underlined bold Zapf Chancery doesn't have a history and
> tradition of use as a book font, whereas sans serif fonts do.  You may not
> be a particular fan of the Bauhaus/asymmetric/geometric school of book
> design, but it would be a brave individual who would deny the tremendous 
> impact it had on the look and feel of 20th century typesetting.  

Actually, I'm a great fan of geometric sans serif fonts IN THEIR PLACE.

> Sans serif fonts are eminently suitable for setting book matter that 
> won't be read for hours at a time, such as magazines, some technical 
> reference books, advertising matter and children's books.

I would phrase it as "You can get away with setting body text in a sans serif
font if the reader's not going to have to look at it for long."

>                                                           It's also 
> suitable for display work and headings.

It's *excellent* for display work and headings.

I quite agree with the rest of what you say about TeX; it does lack good
alternatives to Computer Modern. I'm pleased to see new METAFONT fonts
arriving; I was just reacting (or over-reacting) to the suggestion that an
italic (or slanted) sans-serif font was a good font to set the main body of a
piece of text in.

Bung a few smileys in the article and read it again, if you like.
  

mathew

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