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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fontname</title>
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<h3>What is the "Berry naming scheme"</h3>
<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
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
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
of the file's specification in an extremely terse way, so that enough
font names can be expressed even in impoverished file 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
extensive documentation and a set of tables of fonts whose names have
been systematised.
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<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>)
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<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>
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