Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!grdetil From: grdetil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gilles R. Detillieux) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Medieval Font Message-ID: <1991Jun25.173537.18769@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 25 Jun 91 17:35:37 GMT References: <84343@bu.edu> <84475@bu.edu> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 26 In <84475@bu.edu> krazykid@bu-pub.bu.edu (Ernest Kim) writes: >In article <84343@bu.edu>, krazykid@bu-pub.bu.edu (Ernest Kim) writes: >|> I am looking for a font whose capital letters are letters with some kind >|> of picture design behind it. Something like the drop caps they used in >|> old medival books, with leaves and twigs ... behind it. Does anyone know >|> of a font that is like this?? And where can Iget it?? Also is it >|> available by ftp?? >I guess it's sort of wierd to follow up on my own article, but I forgot to >mention a few things. I need it in a postscript file and for the mac. >Thanks a lot. You might want to look into VarahCaps, a shareware font by the prolific David Rakowski (his "Read Me" files alone are worth a look :-). It should be available for anonymous FTP on um-mts.cc.umich.edu, directory pc2, file fo/varahcap (this is not a Unix site). (I got this information from the shareware font collection for the NeXT on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. I don't know how up to date it is, but many fonts in that collection were converted from Mac fonts from that site.) -- Gilles Detillieux Spinal Cord Research Centre or Dept. of Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)788-6766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W3 (Canada) Fax: (204)786-0932