Conventions

In this document, `/' is used to separate filename components; for example, `texmf/fonts'. This is the Unix convention but the ideas are in no way Unix-specific.

In this document, "TeX" generally means the TeX system, including METAFONT, DVI drivers, utilities, etc., not just the TeX program itself.

The word "package" in this document has its usual meaning: a set of related files distributed, installed, and maintained as a unit. This is not a LaTeX2e package, which is a style file supplementing a document class.

We use the following typographic conventions:

• `literal' Literal text such as `filename' is typeset in typewriter type.
• `replaceable' Replaceable text such as `package', identifying a class of things, is typeset in italics inside angle brackets.

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