Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!kunivv1!caspar From: caspar@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Caspar Terheggen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Type sample text. Summary: Foxes, dogs and wizards Message-ID: <388@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> Date: 10 Aug 89 12:03:53 GMT References: <440@helios.prosys.se> <1006@adobe.UUCP> <1339@draken.nada.kth.se> <1012@adobe.UUCP> <3898@phri.UUCP> <120166@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <3269@daisy.UUCP> Reply-To: caspar@wn2.UUCP (Caspar Terheggen) Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 18 In article <3269@daisy.UUCP> cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai) writes: > >I think the best phrase of text used in type samples is: > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. >It contains all 26 characters of the alphabet. A shorter one reads: "the five boxing wizards jump quickly" but this is irrelevant, because the reason for these sentences is an *easy* way to try all letters on a typewriter (real words type faster than simply the entire alphabet, so I am told). If you really want to provide a good type sample you have to include "difficult" words like AVIATOR (A next to V) and such, as someone else pointed out earlier (I forgot who s/he was, sorry). If you just want to show all letters of the alphabet "abcd..." would suffice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Caspar Terheggen +31 80 612800 caspar@sci.kun.nl U634008@HNYKUN11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------