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+The CMPICA family was created by Don Hosek in 1988 to fill a need for
+a usable face for submitting fiction manuscripts to mainline
+publishers. Changes to parameters were made to create a face with
+roughly the same proportions as the Xerox Pica typeface available for
+use on Xerox laser printers and some changes to encoding were added as
+well so that TeX input conventions could be used to produce output
+that matched standard typescript conventions. In short, `` and ''
+become a straight double quote, ` and ' become a straight single
+quote, --- becomes -- and -- becomes -. In addition, two auxiliary
+fonts are provided: cmpicati underlines characters and cmpicab
+underlines characters with a squiggly underline. Either of these fonts
+may be used as a model of how to apply the same effect to other
+MF-generated types.
+
+A modified version of the original companion LaTeX [2.09] style can be
+found floating around on the net if one looks hard. A companion math
+face was proposed but never completed. It was envisioned to be a mix
+of typewriter-style characters and hand-drawn letters to give the full
+antediluvian effect.
+
+Don Hosek
+Quixote Digital Typography
+dhosek@quixote.com
+fax: 909-625-1342