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<h2 class="chapter">1 Introduction</h2>

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<p>This is Fontname, a naming scheme for (the base part of) external TeX
font filenames.  This makes at most eight-character names from (almost)
arbitrarily complex font names, thus helping portability of TeX
documents.  We point out some shortcomings of the scheme, and ways of
dealing with them.
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