I want to typeset a few secret codes and I thought it would be cool to use the code in "The Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sure enough, someone (Alan Stanier to be precise) created a dancers font in Metafont and it's included in TeXLive 2011 (OS X 10.6.8, using AUCTeX). I tried to use it but the output is all smooshed together. Since I know very little about using fonts in LaTeX I don't know if this is a problem with the font or with my usage of it. I tried
\documentclass{minimal}
\DeclareFontFamily{OT1}{dancers}{}
\DeclareFontShape{OT1}{dancers}{m}{n}{
<-> gen * dancers
}{}
\begin{document}
\usefont{OT1}{dancers}{m}{n}
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
\end{document}
which produces 
. Also putting \qquad between characters does not create a discernible difference, so I can't even work around it in that way. I also tried deleting the file /Users/gvol/Library/texlive/2011/texmf-var/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/dancers/dancers12.56pk in case I had generated it incorrectly in one of my initial experiments, but it didn't help.
Adding \fontsize{52pt}{14pt}\selectfont after the \usefont gives roughly what I want, but that seems completely wrong and when selecting from the pdf it's far too large (because it's a 52pt font obviously).
What have I done wrong and how do I fix it?
