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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:21:20 -0500
From: Tim Daly
To: list
Subject: November 2010 release

  November 2010 Release

This release concentrated on treeshaking the compiler code into book 
volume 9.
Due to the complexity of this task it will take several releases to 
complete.

Makefile
    automate making help files

books/bookvol4
    documented debugging technique

books/bookvol5
    document compiler related routines
    cleanup latex

books/bookvol6
    added section on research ideas

books/bookvol9
    treeshake compiler code
    document compiler code
    fix |special| bug
    merge and remove fnewmeta
    move meta code into bookvol9 from parsing.lisp

books/bookvolbib
    Chee Keng Yap [Yap00], Chudnovsky and Jenks [CJ86], Eric Weisstein 
[Wein],
    David and Gregory Chudnovsky [Chu89], Jenks, [Jen69], Kaufmann [KMJ00],
    Linger [LMW79], Wester [Wes99]

src/algebra/Makefile automate making input files

src/doc
    axiom.sty collect all script commands in one place
    axiom.sty consolidate latex macros

src/input
    setcmd.input clean up broken tests

src/interp
    Makefile merge and remove fnewmeta

    apply, br-con, define, info, category, modemap, postprop  fix 
|special| bug
    vmlisp   fix |special| bug

    compiler, define, fnewmeta, g-boot, interp-proclaims, iterator, 
modemap,
    parsing, postprop vmlisp treeshake compiler

    fnewmeta.lisp removed

    i-output.lisp remove droptrailingblanks

    parsing.lisp cleanup and reformat

    vmlisp.lisp comment out plist assignments
    vmlisp.lisp remove droptrailingblanks
    vmlisp.lisp rename some fnewmeta variables
    vmlisp.lisp rename variables to remove underscores

src/scripts/tex
    axiom.sty add defplist, usesstruct

src/doc
    axiom.sty add defplist, usesstruct

src/axiom-website/
    documentation.html add literate thinking quote





