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diff --git a/libfonts.h b/libfonts.h
index 242b187..02be993 100644
--- a/libfonts.h
+++ b/libfonts.h
@@ -72,18 +72,24 @@ enum libfonts_alias_line_type {
LIBFONTS_ALIAS_LINE_ALIAS_DEFINITION,
/**
- * Line containing just the string ”FILE_NAMES_ALIASES”
+ * Line containing just the string “FILE_NAMES_ALIASES”
* indicating that the file name, minus its suffix, of
* each font file, in the same directory as the font alias
* file, should be set as an alias for the font contained
* in that file
- *
+ *
* For example, if the director contains the files
- * "My Font.ttf" and "My Font Bold.ttf", the font names
- * "My Font" and "My Font Bold" should be aliases for the
+ * “My Font.ttf” and “My Font Bold.ttf”, the font names
+ * “My Font” and “My Font Bold” should be aliases for the
* two fonts, whose proper names are determined by their
- * content and ought to be listed in the file "fonts.dir"
- * in the same directory
+ * content and ought to be listed in the file “fonts.dir”
+ * in the same directory. Note fonts may be compressed
+ * with e.g. gzip, and therefor have an extra suffix
+ * (e.g. .gz), in such cases both the compression suffix
+ * and the font file type suffix shall be stripped, e.g.
+ * “My Font 16.pcf.gz” becomes “My Font 16”. You should
+ * however not assume that the suffixless basename does
+ * not contain any dot.
*/
LIBFONTS_ALIAS_LINE_FONT_NAMES_ALIASES
};