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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2006-01-09 00:40:28 +0000
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+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+<title>Filenames for TeX fonts</title>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">
+<meta name="description" content="Filenames for TeX fonts">
+<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.6">
+<!--
+This document is in the public domain and may be used freely.-->
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
+<style type="text/css"><!--
+ pre.display { font-family:inherit }
+ pre.format { font-family:inherit }
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+</head>
+<body>
+<div class="node">
+<p>
+Node:&nbsp;<a name="Long%20names">Long names</a>,
+Next:&nbsp;<a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Font-name-lists.html#Font%20name%20lists">Font name lists</a>,
+Previous:&nbsp;<a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Filenames-for-fonts.html#Filenames%20for%20fonts">Filenames for fonts</a>,
+Up:&nbsp;<a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a>
+<hr><br>
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="chapter">Long names</h2>
+
+<p>Eight characters is not enough to unambiguously represent all fonts. To
+do that, we have to allow ourselves arbitrarily long names. Although we
+certainly cannot use such names for the files themselves, we could still
+use them in TeX documents given a simple mapping file, as discussed
+below.
+
+<ul class="menu">
+<li><a accesskey="1" href="Name-mapping-file.html#Name%20mapping%20file">Name mapping file</a>: Aliases for fonts.
+<li><a accesskey="2" href="Long-naming-scheme.html#Long%20naming%20scheme">Long naming scheme</a>: A way to use more than 8 alphanumerics.
+</ul>
+
+ </body></html>
+