Re: fontname postfixes

[Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>]

Berthold Horn writes:
 > (2) Another thing it does is map from the file names for the TFM 
 > files to the file names for the corresponding PFB files.
 > This is not needed if they have the same name.
and if they dont have the same name? if you want "ptmr8a" to
refer to tim_____.pfb, or whatever they call it, on a disk
shared with Windows?

 > (3) Another feature of psfonts.map is to say how to reencode text fonts.
 > Again, since one normally has to use the same text font
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > encoding throghout, this can be done automatically
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

but not everyone does

 > Of course, if you are already renaming the files from the names
 > used by the vendor, then you may as well make some more work 
 > for yourself :-)
you want me to use "tim_____" in my documents?

sebastian