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Date:         Sun, 14 Nov 93 11:57:56 -0700
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal@GORTEL.PHYS.UALBERTA.CA>
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Subject:      Re: psfonts.dtx
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>
> `chancer3.sty' is a relic of the *previous* discussion about names for
> styles. Before the `nf' prefix was invented, i suffixed everything
> with `3' to point the way to LaTeX3...
>
> sebastian
>

Here is a perfect example for one of reasons why I protested against
all this "prefix" (make that "suffix" as well) business.  Everything is
fine and dandy if you work on some document, here and now, and it will
be neither widely distributed, to a location(s) with an unknown version
of a system and rather unsophisticated users, nor it will be archived
for future references/retrieval.  This pictures instantly changes if
you have 6000 documents on line, like somebody wrote that he has.
Then you take your 'nfchance' if this will work, or not, because some
style name has changed.

  Michal
  michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca
  ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca