Xref: utzoo comp.fonts:2471 comp.text.tex:7312 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!Damian.Cugley From: Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Malvern (meta-)font and MFjob program now available Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 13:07:57 GMT References: <4435@undis.cs.chalmers.se> <1yX8115w164w@mantis.co.uk> Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK Lines: 23 In-reply-to: mathew@mantis.co.uk's message of 30 Apr 91 13:28:59 GMT > From: mathew > Message-Id: <1yX8115w164w@mantis.co.uk> > 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. By "distinct" I meant "separate", "different", "not-the-same" -- so that by "distinct italic face" I meant that the italic is not just a slanted version of the roman face, like Gill Sans and unlike Helvetica. Normally the main body of the text would be set in the upright version; only the *italics* would be set in italics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'd be interested in comments & suggetsions on sanserif type design... Malvern mailing list -- . //- Damian Cugley ----\ /--- Oxford University Computing Laboratory, -\ || pdc@prg.ox.ac.uk || \--- 11 Keble Rd, Oxford, UK OX1 3QD --------/ || pdc@uk.ac.ox.prg || \--------------------// "His feet are the wrong size for his shoes."