diff --git a/Doc/source/encodings/StandardEncoding.rst b/Doc/source/encodings/StandardEncoding.rst
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-################
-StandardEncoding
-################
-
-.. automodule:: fontTools.encodings.StandardEncoding
-   :inherited-members:
-   :members:
-   :undoc-members:
-
-.. data:: fontTools.encodings.StandardEncoding.StandardEncoding
diff --git a/Doc/source/encodings/codecs.rst b/Doc/source/encodings/codecs.rst
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-######
-codecs
-######
-
-.. automodule:: fontTools.encodings.codecs
-   :inherited-members:
-   :members:
-   :undoc-members:
diff --git a/Doc/source/encodings/index.rst b/Doc/source/encodings/index.rst
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-#########
-encodings
-#########
+##################################################
+encodings: Support for OpenType-specific encodings
+##################################################
 
-.. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 1
+fontTools includes support for some character encodings found in legacy Mac
+TrueType fonts. Many of these legacy encodings have found their way into the
+standard Python ``encodings`` library, but others still remain unimplemented.
+Importing ``fontTools.encodings.codecs`` will therefore add string ``encode``
+and ``decode`` support for the following encodings:
 
-   codecs
-   macRoman
-   StandardEncoding
+* ``x_mac_japanese_ttx``
+* ``x_mac_trad_chinese_ttx``
+* ``x_mac_korean_ttx``
+* ``x_mac_simp_chinese_ttx``
 
+fontTools also includes a package (``fontTools.encodings.MacRoman``) which
+contains a mapping of glyph IDs to glyph names in the MacRoman character set::
 
-.. automodule:: fontTools.encodings
-   :inherited-members:
-   :members:
-   :undoc-members:
-
+		>>> from fontTools.encodings.MacRoman import MacRoman
+		>>> MacRoman[26]
+		'twosuperior'
diff --git a/Doc/source/encodings/macRoman.rst b/Doc/source/encodings/macRoman.rst
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-########
-MacRoman
-########
-
-.. automodule:: fontTools.encodings.MacRoman
-   :inherited-members:
-   :members:
-   :undoc-members:
-
-.. data:: fontTools.encodings.MacRoman.MacRoman