This is Fontname 2.1, a naming scheme for (the base part of) external TeX font filenames. This makes at most eight-character names from (almost) arbitrarily complex font names, thus helping portability of TeX documents. We point out some shortcomings of the scheme, and ways of dealing with them.
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Besides this document, the Fontname distribution includes various encoding files, mapping files, and utilities. See the file `README' for details. You can retrieve the most up-to-date version of these lists by anonymous ftp as `ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/fontname'. This directory is mirrored on all CTAN hosts (`ftp.dante.de', `ftp.tex.ac.uk', and their mirrors, such as `ftp.cdrom.com') in the directory `tex-archive/doc/fontname'. For a list of CTAN mirrors, finger `ctan@ftp.tug.org'.
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