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Subject:Favourite font for long passages? From:Janet Barry <jebarry -at- UPEI -dot- CA> Date:Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:29:17 -0400
Greetings all:
I'm writing a Getting Started type of manual for a grapher software
application, and can't decide on a font for the longer chunks of
text.
Several years ago I wrote a manual in Word on a Macintosh, and
used Palatino as the main text font. It's one of my favourites. Now,
I use a PC and applications such as WordPerfect and Corel Draw. Is
there a similar font to Palatino available?
What fonts do you "pros" prefer?
Regards and thanks,
Janet Barry
University of P.E.I.
jbarry -at- upei -dot- ca
