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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
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Reply-To: caspar@wn2.UUCP (Caspar Terheggen)
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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In article <3269@daisy.UUCP> cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai) writes:
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>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.

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