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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | @c @mapfile{
@c license = "public domain",
@c email = "tex-fonts@tug.org",
@c version = "2.2",
@c date = "1 July 1998",
@c url = "http://tug.org/fontname/weight.map",
@c supported = "yes",
@c docstring = "Weight abbreviations for TeX font names."
@c }
@c
a Thin Hairline
b Bold
c Black
d Demi
h Heavy Heavyface
j ExtraLight
k Book
l Light
m Medium
p Poster
r Regular Roman
s Semibold
u Ultra UltraBlack
x ExtraBold ExtraBlack
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