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From: rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Cyrillic Fonts
Message-ID: <1207@infinet.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 88 22:57:15 GMT
Reply-To: rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn)
Organization: Infinet, Inc.  North Andover, MA
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Are there some Cyrillic fonts that are not so ugly?  I recently
realized why I think them so ugly.  There are few ascenders or
descenders and the letters themselves are very angular.  You can go
for entire lines with every word just a box.  The itallic font used in
Smirnitsky is more palatable, although its ``ve'' is atrocious.  Yet
written script can be as visually pleasing in Cyrillic as Roman
alphabets.

The little writing that I do is accomodated by the AMS Cyrillic (no
better than the regular publishing fonts) but it would be nice to have
a more pleasing font available to me.  Perhaps it would spread.  Well,
I can at least hope.-- 
				Rob  Horn
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