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<h2 class="chapter">2 Filenames for fonts</h2>
<p>In this scheme, names may consist of only the letters (monocase a-z),
numerals (0-9), and underscore. Having two names which differ only in
case is undesirable, since it results in clashes on common Windows
filesystems.
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<p>Here is the basic scheme (the spaces here are merely for readability):
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<pre class="example"> <var>S</var> <var>TT</var> <var>W</var> [<var>V…</var>] [<var>N</var>] [<var>E</var>] [<var>DD</var>]
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<p>where
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<dt><var>S</var></dt>
<dd><p>represents the supplier of the font.
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</dd>
<dt><var>TT</var></dt>
<dd><p>represents the typeface name.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><var>W</var></dt>
<dd><p>represents the weight.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><var>V…</var></dt>
<dd><p>represents the variant(s), and is omitted if both it and the width are
normal. Many fonts have more than one variant.
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<dt><var>N</var></dt>
<dd><p>represents the encoding, and is omitted if the encoding is nonstandard.
Encodings are subsumed in the section on variants (see <a href="Variants.html#Variants">Variants</a>).
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</dd>
<dt><var>E</var></dt>
<dd><p>represents the width (“expansion”), and is omitted if
it is normal.
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<dt><var>DD</var></dt>
<dd><a name="index-design-size-specification"></a>
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<p>represents the design size (in decimal), and is omitted if the font is
linearly scaled. Mittelbach in <cite>TUGboat</cite> 13(1) proposes using
hexadecimal or base-36 notation. In my opinion, the increased range
does not make up for the unreadability of the common sizes (e.g.,
10pt fonts would have a suffix ‘<samp>a</samp>’ (in hex), or ‘<samp>j</samp>’
(in base 36)).
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<p>We used to try to limit font names to eight characters. This was
never completely possible, and since DOS filesystems have become rare,
it’s no longer an issue.
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<p>The weight, variants, and width are probably all best taken from the
original name of the font, instead of trying to relate them to some
external standard.
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