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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2007-12-28 19:57:02 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2007-12-28 19:57:02 +0000 |
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uk-tex-faq 3.17 (7nov07)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fontname.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fontname.html index 111a33128a4..0b6f33c0f47 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fontname.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fontname.html @@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fontname</title> </head><body> <h3>What is the “Berry naming scheme”</h3> -<p>In the olden days, (La)TeX distributions were limited by the +<p/>In the olden days, (La)TeX distributions were limited by the feebleness of file systems’ ability to represent long names. (The MSDOS file system was a particular bugbear: fortunately any current Microsoft system allows rather more freedom to specify file names. Sadly, the ISO 9660 standard for the structure of CDROMs has a similar failing, but that too has been modified by various extension mechanisms.) -<p>One area in which this was a particular problem was that of file names +<p/>One area in which this was a particular problem was that of file names for Type 1 fonts. These fonts are distributed by their vendors with pretty meaningless short names, and there’s a natural ambition to change the name to something that identifies the font somewhat @@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ precisely. Unfortunately, names such as “BaskervilleMT” are already far beyond the abilities of the typical feeble file system, and add the specifier of a font shape or variant, and the difficulties spiral out of control. -<p>Thus arose the Berry naming scheme. -<p>The basis of the scheme is to encode the meanings of the various parts +<p/>Thus arose the Berry naming scheme. +<p/>The basis of the scheme is to encode the meanings of the various parts of the file’s specification in an extremely terse way, so that enough -font names can be expressed even in impoverished file spaces. The +font names can be expressed even in impoverished file name-spaces. The encoding allocates one letter to the font “foundry”, two to the typeface name, one to the weight, and so on. The whole scheme is outlined in the <i>fontname</i> distribution, which includes @@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ been systematised. <dl> <dt><tt><i>fontname distribution</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/fontname.zip">info/fontname</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/fontname.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/fontname/">browse</a>) </dl> -<p> -<p><p><p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fontname">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fontname</a> +<p/> +<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fontname">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fontname</a> </body> |