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diff --git a/bdfnorm b/bdfnorm
index 0b02834..bbca464 100755
--- a/bdfnorm
+++ b/bdfnorm
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
+# BDF can represent glyphs as smaller bitmap rectangles with padding.
+# But our approach to font editing works best if the glyphs are the
+# full character cell.  Although most fonts do not use this feature
+# (at least, as seen in pdf2bdf output), some do, and also output from
+# fontforge does.  So this script pads each glyph to the font bounding
+# box.
+
 use strict;
 use POSIX;