Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 09/20/07 07:19

Scripsit Animesh K:

> While we are at this ...

I'm afraid this gets far too off-topic; the comp.fonts group would be much
more suitable.

> Can someone tell which font is closest to the one in "English" in this
> PDF document at my website. The pdf was generated using Latex-Dvipdf.
> Tahoma seems a bit off.
>
> http://www.stutimandal.com/gif_adi/bhavani_ashtakam.pdf

I don't quite understand the question. Do you mean the font used in English
texts there? Don't you know what it is? Actually it uses at least _two_
fonts, a serif font for the heading a for the bold texts and a sans-serif
font for the copy text. This violates typographic principles - they tell you
to use just the opposite, serif for copy, sans-serif for headings. Serif
should rarely appear in bold, and inline bold serif inside sans-serif
paragraphs is just... er... very wrong. Some of the characters look awful;
the macron (line above) is barely noticeable in the heading, too bold in the
bold texts and partly misplaced horizontally.

Oh, and an em dash with spaces around is wrong. Use either an em dash with
no spaces (US style) or an en dash with spaces (British style), and make
this match your choice of the version of English.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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