Re: fontname postfixes

[Karl Berry <karl@cs.umb.edu>]

    I dislike psfonts.map of dvips.  

Sorry, but I don't think there's a rational alternative.  I don't think
it's going to be reliable/precise enough to try to parse the font names.
It would be nice if it was, but it's not.  Sorry.  For example, for
automatically-created expanded/condensed fonts, you're not going to know
how much to expand/condense without reading psfonts.map.

My recommendation is to steal code from dvips as needed.