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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/README
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-STEP fonts version 1.0a
-September 9, 2019
+STEP fonts version 2.0a
+September 15, 2019
 
 The STEP fonts are a free Times-like (i.e., Times replacement) font family, implementing
 a design first created for The Times of London in 1932. These fonts are meant to be
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/STEP-COPYING b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/STEP-COPYING
index bca67e32304..85369347adc 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/STEP-COPYING
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@@ -103,3 +103,4 @@ RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES O
 LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
 WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR
 INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
+
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/step-fonts.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/step-fonts.pdf
index c971eaa6bc9..d3b928d6d49 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/step-fonts.pdf
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/step-fonts.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/step-fonts.tex
index 7432ccbb142..1c08f5b63bb 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/step/step-fonts.tex
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 \usepackage[main=english]{babel}
 \usepackage{booktabs}
 \title{The STEP fonts}
-\date{Version 1.0a\\September 9, 2019}
+\date{Version 2.0a\\September 15, 2019}
 \author{Daniel~Benjamin Miller\thanks{\texttt{dbmiller@dbmiller.org}}}
 \begin{document}
 \maketitle
-The STEP fonts are a free Times-like (i.e., Times replacement) font family, implementing a design first created for \textit{The Times} of London in 1932. These fonts are meant to be compatible in design with Adobe's digitization of Linotype Times, commonly used in publishing. Linotype's Times design is similar, but not exactly identical to Monotype's Times New Roman. STEP is an acronym which can intentionally have multiple meanings, its primary meaning is \textit{Serif Typeface for Electronic Publishing}.
+The STEP fonts are a free Times-like (i.e., Times replacement) font family, implementing a design first created for \textit{The Times} of London in 1932. These fonts are meant to be compatible in design with Adobe's digitization of Linotype Times, commonly used in publishing. Linotype's Times design is similar, but not exactly identical to Monotype's Times New Roman. STEP is an acronym for \textit{Serif Typeface for Electronic Publishing}, though its meaning is intentionally flexible.
 \section{History}
-The STEP fonts are based on the (original) STIX\footnote{\texttt{https://ctan.org/pkg/stix}} and XITS\footnote{\texttt{https://github.com/alif-type/xits}} fonts. The core character set came from STIX; Khaled Hosny made some improvements and fixes in XITS. Other improvements were made my myself in upstream XITS. STEP, unlike XITS, does not hold itself to the goal of strict backwards compatibility. STEP's math fonts (available in OpenType format only at present) are almost unchanged from XITS'. STEP changes vertical metrics from XITS (mostly useful for non-\TeX\ applications) to match those of Adobe's Linotype Times. Further, for text fonts, STEP supports the Type 1 format and includes support for use with \LaTeX, although more features remain available in OpenType only.
+The STEP fonts are based on the STIX\footnote{\texttt{https://ctan.org/pkg/stix}} and XITS\footnote{\texttt{https://github.com/alif-type/xits}} fonts. The core character set came from STIX; Khaled Hosny made some improvements and fixes in XITS. Other improvements were made my myself in upstream XITS. STEP, unlike XITS, does not hold itself to the goal of strict backwards compatibility. STEP's math fonts (available in OpenType format only at present) are almost unchanged from XITS'. STEP changes vertical and horizontal metrics from XITS (mostly useful for non-\TeX\ applications) to match those of Adobe's Linotype Times. Further, for text fonts, STEP supports the Type 1 format and includes support for use with \LaTeX, although some features remain available in OpenType only.
 \section{Why STEP?}
-The STEP fonts are far from the only free digitization of Times available for use with \LaTeX. It does, however, provide some features not found in other commonly-used fonts. Unlike \TeX\ Gyre Termes, it has small capitals and old-style figures which were manually drawn instead of scaled (semi-)automatically, ensuring higher quality; other Times fonts available often do not include small capitals or old-style figures at all. STEP also includes superior and inferior figures. The utmost care has been taken to ensure that all characters in STEP are of high quality.
+The STEP fonts are far from the only free digitization of Times available for use with \LaTeX. The fonts provide some features not found in other commonly-used versions, including small capitals and old-style figures which were manually drawn instead of scaled (semi-) automatically, ensuring higher quality; other Times fonts available often do not include small capitals or old-style figures at all. STEP also includes superior and inferior figures. The utmost care has been taken to ensure that all characters in STEP are of high quality.
 
-Still, STEP does not work for all situations; it does not support Greek or Cyrillic well (both are found in the OpenType versions, but missing kerning, and the Greek font in particular is suited only to mathematics and not Greek text). For Greek text, it is recommended that you use a different package; a Greek text font may be created to accompany STEP in the future. STEP's character support for certain other languages which use the Latin alphabet is also lacking, and improvements are planned for the future.
+Greek support is limited; polytonic Greek is found in the regular font, whereas the other fonts in the family support monotonic Greek only. The Greek does not correspond in design to Linotype Times, but rather to MicroPress' TM Text Extension (MicroPress kindly donated some outlines to the STIX project). For a Greek font more similar to Linotype's, see the \texttt{tempora}\footnote{\texttt{https://ctan.org/pkg/tempora}} package. Cyrillic support is from URW's Nimbus Roman. I do not personally use the Cyrillic alphabet, so I cannot comment on the character set. STEP's character support for certain other languages which use the Latin alphabet (e.g., Vietnamese) is lacking, and improvements are planned for the future.
 \section{Usage with \texttt{fontspec}}
-If you do not need to use a legacy \TeX\ engine, simply use \texttt{fontspec}\footnote{\texttt{https://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec}} as follows:
+If you do not need to use a legacy \TeX\ engine, you may simply use \texttt{fontspec}\footnote{\texttt{https://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec}} as follows:
 \begin{verbatim}
 \usepackage{fontspec}
 \setmainfont{STEP}
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ If you wish to use the math font as well, this is possible:
 \end{verbatim}
 When using \texttt{fontspec}, all font options are handled according to that package's facilities. See its documentation for details.
 \section{Usage with the \texttt{step} \LaTeX\ package}
-To use the STEP fonts in older \TeX\ engines, you may use the \LaTeX\ package \texttt{step}.
+To use the STEP with 8-bit \TeX\ engines, you may use the \LaTeX\ package \texttt{step}.
 \begin{verbatim}
 \usepackage{step}
 \end{verbatim}
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Text Command & Feature \\
 \bottomrule
 \end{tabular}
 \section{Contributing}
-Contributions to the fonts themselves may be sent as pull requests to their GitHub repository.\footnote{\texttt{https://github.com/dbenjaminmiller/step}} Contributions to the \LaTeX\ support should be emailed directly to me for inclusion (with credit, of course).
+Contributions to the fonts and their \LaTeX\ support may be sent as pull requests to the project's GitHub repository.\footnote{\texttt{https://github.com/dbenjaminmiller/step}}
 \section{Licensing}
 STEP is licensed under the Open Font License (OFL) version 1.1; see \texttt{STEP-COPYING} for details.
 \end{document}
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