Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jaap+ From: jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jaap Akkerhuis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Type sample text. Message-ID:Date: 17 Aug 89 15:04:10 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> <1989Aug16.152652.3275@cs.rochester.edu>, <462@helios.prosys.se> Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: <462@helios.prosys.se> > Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 17-Aug-89 Re: Type sample > text. Anders Thulin@helios.pro (1362) > That particular spelling is probably from Donald Knuth's The METAFONT > Book, or possibly his book on the Computer Modern Roman typefaces. If > my memory serves me right, he also uses it in lower case. Variations on the word Hamburg are in use as font samples for at least 50 year. And no, I don't know who & why it started. jaap