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+<title>Filenames for TeX fonts: History</title>
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+<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents">
+<link href="Introduction.html#Introduction" rel="up" title="Introduction">
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+<a name="History"></a>
+<div class="header">
+<p>
+Next: <a href="References.html#References" accesskey="n" rel="next">References</a>, Up: <a href="Introduction.html#Introduction" accesskey="u" rel="up">Introduction</a> &nbsp; [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="General-index.html#General-index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
+</div>
+<hr>
+<a name="History-1"></a>
+<h3 class="section">1.1 History</h3>
+
+<a name="index-history"></a>
+
+<a name="index-Mittelbach_002c-Frank"></a>
+<a name="index-Schoepf_002c-Rainer"></a>
+<p>The original inspiration for Fontname was Frank Mittelbach and Rainer
+Schoepf&rsquo;s article in <cite>TUGboat</cite> 11(2) (June 1990), which led to my
+article in <cite>TUGboat</cite> 11(4) (November 1990), pages 512&ndash;519.
+Mittelbach wrote another article criticizing the scheme below in
+<cite>TUGboat</cite> 13(1) (April 1992), pages 51&ndash;53; most of his points are
+well-taken, but I saw no alternative then, and see no alternative now.
+Others of his points are addressed in the appropriate sections below.
+</p>
+<a name="index-Fontname-version-2"></a>
+<p>In August 1995, Fontname version 2 was released, concomitantly with a new
+release of the PostScript fonts for use with LaTeX and Dvips. After
+several years of experience, several modifications of the original
+distribution seemed desirable: more precise specification of encodings
+(see <a href="Variants.html#Variants">Variants</a>); machine-readable mapping files (the <samp>*.map</samp>
+files in the distribution) and standardizing directory names as well as
+font filenames (included in <samp>supplier.map</samp> and
+<samp>typeface.map</samp>).
+</p>
+<p>In Fontname version 1, some encoding variant characters (&lsquo;<samp>0</samp>&rsquo;,
+&lsquo;<samp>2</samp>&rsquo;, etc.) have been reassigned to a &lsquo;<samp>7</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>8</samp>&rsquo; sequence
+(see <a href="Variants.html#Variants">Variants</a>). Although this is an incompatible change, the
+advantages of (1) consistency in naming encoding variants, and (2)
+having some free variants makes it worthwhile. Also, not so
+coincidentally, new metrics for PostScript fonts in the Cork encoding
+were issued&mdash;same encoding, different metrics. So a new name served a
+practical purpose as well.
+</p>
+<a name="index-contributors"></a>
+<a name="index-Beebe_002c-Nelson"></a>
+<a name="index-Beeton_002c-Barbara"></a>
+<a name="index-Bernstein_002c-Rocky"></a>
+<a name="index-Bouche_002c-Thierry"></a>
+<a name="index-Cugley_002c-Damian"></a>
+<a name="index-Horn_002c-Berthol"></a>
+<a name="index-Jeffrey_002c-Alan"></a>
+<a name="index-Lang_002c-Russell"></a>
+<a name="index-MacKay_002c-Pierre"></a>
+<a name="index-Rahtz_002c-Sebastian"></a>
+<a name="index-Rivlin_002c-Jean"></a>
+<a name="index-Rokicki_002c-Tom"></a>
+<p>Many people have contributed to this work. In particular, I gratefully
+acknowledge Nelson Beebe, Barbara Beeton, Rocky Bernstein, Thierry Bouche,
+Damian Cugley, Berthold K.P. Horn, Alan Jeffrey, Russell Lang, Pierre
+MacKay, Sebastian Rahtz, Jean Rivlin, and Tom Rokicki.
+</p>
+
+<hr>
+<div class="header">
+<p>
+Next: <a href="References.html#References" accesskey="n" rel="next">References</a>, Up: <a href="Introduction.html#Introduction" accesskey="u" rel="up">Introduction</a> &nbsp; [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="General-index.html#General-index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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