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From: jeffrey@fwi.uva.nl (Alan Jeffrey)
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Subject: Re: Malvern (meta-)font and MFjob program now available
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In article <1yX8115w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>Actually, I'm a great fan of geometric sans serif fonts IN THEIR PLACE.

Yes, and that place includes magazine and technical documents, for
which you need a full range of faces available (including bold sans
serif slanted at silly sizes).  Nobody's suggesting you run an entire
book in sans serif slantex, but you need it available if you want to
run a book (or magazine or whatever) in sans serif.  

Alan.