Re: fontinst-1.8 release

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

Ulrik Vieth writes:
 > It could, if you have a good suggestion for a family name.  The
 > problem is that I was running out of meaningful names and that LaTeX
 > allows no more than 5 characters per family name to ensure that .fd
 > file names don't execeed 8 characters.  What else but "ptmcm" could 
 > we use for mathptmx?  I would have prefered a z-prefix 

zcmtm, then, since we dont use the foundry prefix for "cm", can be
omitted for "tm". i agree, its not perfect, but ok surely

sebastian