karl@umb.umb.edu (Karl Berry.) (08/12/89)
(Why are we discussing this in comp.lang.postscript?) Showing all 26 letters in a text sample intended to display the font doesn't prove very much. What typographers are interested in (among other things) is the gray value of the font, and that can only be seen with a sample of real text (or randomly generated strings with the same letter frequencies as real text, whatever). AV combinations and such aren't exactly what I would call `difficult'; that's just a question of (1) the font designer looking at that combination and kerning it, and (b) the composition software being able to handle the kerns. Whoever it was that said the texts are probably different according to the intended audience had it right. U&lc (ITC's house organ) always shows its new faces in the same text (without hyphenation), as someone surmised. karl@umb.edu ...!harvard!umb!karl