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@@ -16,10 +16,13 @@ containing glyphs from more than one base font, taking
advantage of e.g. "expert" font sets.
Fontinst cannot examine files to see if they contain any
-useful information, nor automatically search for files
-or work with binary file formats; those tasks must
-normally be done manually or with the help of some other
-tool, such as the pltotf and vptovf programs.
+useful information or work with binary file formats; those
+tasks must normally be done manually or with the help of
+some other tool, such as the pltotf and vptovf programs.
+Nor can fontinst automatically search for files, but if
+they are named according to the fontname scheme (Berry)
+then fontinst sometimes succeeds very well in guessing
+what the interesting files are called.
* Documentation
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ questions about how one uses fontinst, see this manual.
Sadly, the manual has been neglected for some time, and
although it was recently revised, much remains to do.
-In particular, many commands still lack description and
+In particular, several commands still lack description and
explanations (although at least the manual now lists
all the syntaxes). Some alternative sources of information
that you may find useful are:
@@ -109,5 +112,5 @@ General information about the mailing list is at:
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/fontinst
-7 August 2004,
+16 December 2004,
Lars Hellstr\"om