Metafont fonts in the K.Berry scheme

["Walter Schmidt" <wschmi@ibm.net>]

Can it really be that the traditional METAFONT fonts used by
TeX & friends do not fit into the well-known "Karl Berry" scheme 
for font names?

Some examples:

Metafont name ! description         ! meaning in the KB scheme
==============================================================
cmr.....      ! CM Roman            ! Compugraphic Madrone
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ecr....       ! EC Roman            ! Apple Courier
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tcr....       ! dito Text Companion ! ParaGraph Courier
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ccr.....      ! Concrete Roman      ! Compugraphic Courier
--------------------------------------------------------------
eor.....      ! EC Concrete Roman   ! Apple Orator
--------------------------------------------------------------
tor.....      ! dito Text Companion ! ParaGraph Orator
--------------------------------------------------------------
cmbr....      ! CM Bright           ! Compugraphic ???
--------------------------------------------------------------
ebr.....      ! EC Bright           ! Apple Berling
--------------------------------------------------------------
tbr.....      ! dito Text Companion ! Paragraph Berling
--------------------------------------------------------------
ma......      ! Malvern             ! Monotype ???
--------------------------------------------------------------
pnr.....      ! Pandora Roman       ! Adobe New Berolina
--------------------------------------------------------------

On the German mailing list TEX-D-L there was a fontname clash
reported today:  Concrete Text Companion had been mixed up with
Paragraph Orator, which indeed is existing and had been available 
on the system.

Unfortunately it's me who has adapted DEK's Concrete fonts to the
T1 and TS1 encodings, and I'm responsible for choosing the naming 
scheme eorxxxxx and torxxxxx for them, so I think I should start 
discussing the problem in the public.

As far as I can see, other well-known MF fonts may be affected, too.  
Fortunately, the "duplicate" fonts do not (yet?) exist.

Greetings

Walter

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