Re:5+3+... FontName reduction algorithm: final report

["Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@csc-sun.math.utah.edu>]

>> Well, if you modify your algorithm that way, that in a collated
>> sequence of numbers, the first digit is treated like an uppercase
>> letter and the others like lowercase, then most of DEK's font-names
>> result in unique names (except cmssq/cmssqi).

True.  However, that is not the Adobe algorithm.  Another respondent
this morning made a similar observation, and I suggested that names
that contained neither hyphens nor uppercase letters could be exempted
>From the algorithm, so that they remain unchanged.

I was, however, more worried about collisions in commercial Type 1
fonts, and I think the experiment showed that the 5+3ff algorithm
is quite successful, but not quite perfect.

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