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Some additional fun pangrams, for this purpose or otherwise:
Fix problem quickly with galvanized jets.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
Thanks for the pangrams. One problem I have with pangrams is that for demonstrating cursive writing, you also have to take into consideration how the letters join up. The letters would have a slightly different shape depending on the letters adjacent to them. In a way, it's like the Arabic script.
There's probably pan... ligature-grams. Some hideous paragraph that concisely demonstrates every valid pair. Ballpark, every letter has to appear once with a different letter after it, so an example would be on the order of one thousand characters.
That feels alarmingly like a programming puzzle for this late at night.
Yeah, it is. I'm kinda glad it's in the middle of the day here where I live. I wouldn't want to be up at night teasing this horrible, horrible combinatorics puzzle in bed.