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From: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Type sample text.
Message-ID: <3269@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 23:03:04 GMT
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Reply-To: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Organization: Daisy/Cadnetix Corp., Mtn. View, CA
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]roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes, about Adobe's Font&Function catalog:
]
]> I've always wondered about the type samples.  Who picks the silly
]> little bits of text used in the type samples?

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.

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