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UKTeX Digest    Monday,  1 Feb 1993    Volume 93 : Issue 04

   ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary
        service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.''

Today's Topics:
 {Q&A}:
                       accents over \boldmath characters
                            UKTUG Meeting - 26 Jan.
                 LaTeX and TeX on the DEC Alpha (AXP) machines
                               Newsletter macros
                                  word counts
                                Re: word counts
                     possible problem with accented PS VFs
                                      xfig
                                    Re: xfig
                                    Re: xfig
 {Announcements}:
                            New release of greektex

Administrivia:
    Moderators:     Peter Abbott (Aston University) and
                    David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
    Contributions:  UKTeX@uk.ac.tex
    Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests:
                    UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex

------------------------------------------------------------

Date:    Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:59:00 +0000
From:    "Ian Ellery, CPC" <S121@uk.ac.east-anglia.cpc865>
Subject: accents over \boldmath characters

A LaTeX user at UEA is trying to put an accent over a bold lower case
greek character.
To get bold lower-case greek you need to use \boldmath, eg

             \mbox{\boldmath $\mu$}

This works fine, but if try to put a hat over the mu to indicate an estimate:

             \mbox{\boldmath $\hat{\mu}$}

gives what looks like a \frown going through the mu.
There is a warning on p201 LaTeX book that \boldmath may have problems,
but does not mention accents.

I tried a couple of other accents at random from table 3.11 (LaTeX book),
and got incorrect characters for both (breve gave a lambda, tilde gave a
vector).

  The problem I think is because \hat selects a character directly from the
maths font, using the octal code. But \boldmath changes fonts to force
bold, so \hat gets its character from a different font, with a different 
character in the octal position of ^. 

Is this a known problem? 

 My quick solution is to keep \hat out of the \boldmath:
      $\hat{\mbox{\boldmath $\mu$}}$
which seems to work, but is pretty ugly (3 switches in an out of maths for a
start). 

Any better solutions? And is it possible to get both the \hat and the \mu
into bold? (The above just puts the \mu in bold obviously).

  cheers
     Ian Ellery    i.ellery@uea

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Date:    Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:06:16 +0700
From:    "R.A.Reese" <R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull.cc.sequent>
Subject: UKTUG Meeting - 26 Jan.

I always prepare a short report after attending meetings and as this
subject is of little interest to colleagues in my department, I may as
well share my comme nts with the TeX community who missed the meeting.

Two pairs of talks on quite separate topics, plus one pragmatic
report.

Paul Stiff and Michael Twyman (both from Dept Typography, Reading
Univ) discussed the use of design and typography to enhance delivery
of a message.  Paul set up an aunt Sally that there are no objective
rules of design; it is an iterative process based on feedback, relying
on the aesthetic feel of a craftsman. Imposing pre-ordained designs
could impoverish the process. An example was a Christmas Party invite
that looked like every other office circular. However, I think his
main message was to be aware of design and to articulate the
relationship of content and form, which leads to applying flexible
rules - or break them only to achieve a specific effect, not just
through ignorance.  Michael showed examples from a taxonomy of "modes
and methods", and concluded that the designer should be aware of the
reader's expectations and probable progression around a page but could
strongly influence this. He considered (with audience participation)
the structure underlying various text arramgements such as football
results, telephone direct ories, timetables and adverts.

The second pair were on the internals of LaTeX.  Sue Brooks looked at
existing LaTeX to find out how and where the logical structure of the
document was separated from its appearance as a particular style. She
suggested that there is a lot of overhead in LaTeX 2 of structure
material in style files that should be in the format file kernel. As a
result, the kernel without a style is unusable.  Frank Mittelbach put
the alternative view, that the logical entities were strictly part of
the style (or at least of a style for a "class" of documents e.g.,
cookbooks) but LaTeX 3 would more carefully separate the logical
definition from the visual appearance, and would make style files
mainly declarative.  He discussed in detail the hierarchy of a logical
construct, a formatting function that would specify the appearance of
the construct in each context, and the visual influence of the
instance such as occurring at a line or page break.  As an example, a
quote might be a logical entity.  It should be displayed in the body
text but probably run-in in a footnote. In the text, it is highly
undesirable to end a recto page with a hyphen, but TeX will not pick
that up by default as it is optimizing line-breaks in paragraphs.
Frank was asked why he was working on a TeX-based LaTeX 3 rather than
a completely new system. The answers were: a) TeX is a very
cost-effective solution as a soundly-based and almost bug-free basis,
b) TeX is (despite being ten years old) still a very good system,
still state of the art for typography, and c) TeX is widely available,
widely used and open.

Phil Taylor entertained us with a confessional, as he described the
errors he had made while learning about TeX and the battles he had
fought (and sometimes won) with publishers. In a reference back to a
comment at last October's meeting (authors always want more white
space, publishers less) Phil reported how he had gradually reduced his
line widths rather than used large characters to get 70ish per line
and reduced the vskips *above* headings and the ratio of vskips
between heading / subhead/subsub etc.  He reported that students
preferred block paras (more white space) but publishers insist on
indents. One battle apparently won was to move the page number from
the outside header to centred bottom of folio, so it could be
consistent across chapter start pages. After many attempts to force
exactly balanced pages, Phil now uses \fraybottom, where opposite
pages may differ by at most one line (I'd have thought you could
divide 1 lineskip into a stretch on each baselineskip - say 12pt -> 40
lines = .3 pt max per line. Is that offensive?).  Phil highlight ed
that a measure that has *any* stretch can be stretched infinitely with
only a warning.  This can lead to excessive gaps under fully automatic
pagination. It also causes a problem in making headings fit an exact
multiple of \baselineskips; Phil gets round this with a macro that
puts the heading into a box. computes the height and rounds it up to
an integer number of lines, then smashes the box and moves the
reference point to the correct position for the heading. Finally he
considered the question of penalties.  He had tried \penalty\maxdimen
but then TeX may try to add penalties and give overflow. \penalty
10000 (Knuth's maximum) can cause awful side effects, so 9999 is
preferred in all practical contexts. Phil uses an iterative technique
to optimize \tolerance.  Run with tolerance very small, say 150, and
you may be lucky - no overful boxes. If not, run with tolerance 9999
and TeX will report underfull boxes and a maximum badness, say it's
3456.  So run with tolerance 3455 (one less) and TeX will now report a
smaller maximum badness because it's made several lines "a little"
worse to allow for the one really bad one that's no longer allowed.
Repeat with one less than the maximum until TeX screams again about
overfull boxes, then go back one step.

Unfortunately I couldn't stay for the open discussion due to the
extreme intolerance of BR's timetable.

(R.) Allan Reese        Janet:          r.a.reese@uk.ac.hull
Head of Applications    Direct voice:   +44 482 465296
Computer Centre         Voice messages: +44 482 465685
Hull University         Fax:            +44 482 466441
Hull HU6 7RX, U.K.

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Date:    Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:40:00 +0000
From:    "CCF::ARNETT"@uk.mod.hermes
Subject: LaTeX and TeX on the DEC Alpha (AXP) machines

I've recently ordered four DEC Alpha machines, and want to install
LaTeX and TeX on them as soon as they arrive.  Because these machines
use the new AXP processors rather than the old VAX processors, the
code will require recompilat ion.  The machines will be running Open
VMS AXP.  Has anyone yet successfully ported LaTeX to the new Alpha
machines, and if so, what, if any, are the problems found with doing
this?  Any advice would be gratefully received.  Please contact

Paul Howland on (0684) 895366, or mail HFSECT@UK.MOD.HERMES.
I'd prefer a phonecall!  Many thanks, Paul.

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Date:    Wed, 27 Jan 93 18:06:19 +0000
From:    Peter J Knaggs <vac9u045@uk.ac.paisley.computer-science>
Subject: Newsletter macros 


I know that this is a FAQ, however, this is the first time I have ever
wanted to know the answer.

Could someone point me to a set of macros for composing newsletters.  I
know some exist, but what and where I don't know.  I am wanting to group
a number of articles together under the one newsletter for internal
publication, with the possibility of going external in the future.

Peter J Knaggs                  Computing Science, University of Paisley,
pjk @ cs.paisley.ac.uk          High Street, Paisley, Scotland.  081 848 3545

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:39:25 +0000
From:    ee01th@uk.ac.surrey.ee
Subject: word counts

How can I get a true word count from a LaTeX file?
ie, don't include any keywords, or anything in a section
header, just real text (after of course any macros have
been expanded for frequently used phrases)

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Date:    Fri, 29 Jan 93 08:26:05 +0000
From:    Malcolm Clark <malcolmc@uk.ac.westminster>
Subject: Re: word counts


two suggestions for a 'true' wordcount (whatever that really means):

1. process the dvi file
2. use crudetype and then process its output.

to process the .tex would require writing a macro processor
(just like TeX!), which i understand has already been done
by knuth. (an the other hand, the ntss people might be interested...)

malcolm

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Date:    Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:58:01 +0000
From:    Adrian F Clark <alien@uk.ac.essex>
Subject: possible problem with accented PS VFs

I've just come across what I think is a problem with the VFs that
commonly accompany PostScript fonts.  The \aa macro should (according
to p52 of The TeXbook) generate an `a' with a little circle above it
(a lower case Angstrom!) but I get an `a' with a tilde accent above
it.

I'm using the latest LaTeX and NFSS with Sebastian's times.sty, plus
VFs from the Aston archive.  Could anyone confirm that this problem is
not specific to my systems before I start digging?

Many thanks in advance.

..Adrian

 Dr Adrian F. Clark                                   JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex
 INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk          FAX: (+44) 206-872900
 BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk              PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct)
 Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK.

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Date:    Fri, 29 Jan 93 14:59:31 +0000
From:    Malcolm Clark <malcolmc@uk.ac.westminster>
Subject: xfig

what style file is needed with a figure generated
from xfig? (exporting to LaTeX).
and where is it in the archive?

ta.

malcolm

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Date:    Fri, 29 Jan 93 16:39:04 +0100
From:    Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Re: xfig

Malcolm Clark asked:

 > what style file is needed with a figure generated
 > from xfig? (exporting to LaTeX).
 > and where is it in the archive?

After you have run "fig2dev -Llatex" on it, it's supposed to work
without any extra style file. However, if you're using NFSS, you need
to define all the internal font switching commands fig2dev generates
(which, BTW, I consider a serious error in the design of the fig2dev
translator). For this, use the file rawfonts.sty from Sebastian
Rahtz's psnfss package, to be found in

macros/latex/styles/base/nfss/psnfss/rawfonts.sty

on

ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.uni-stuttgart.de

   Rainer Schoepf

------------------------------

Date:    01 Feb 93 10:17:51 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: xfig


 > 
 > what style file is needed with a figure generated
 > from xfig? (exporting to LaTeX).
 > and where is it in the archive?
 > 
you use the "transfig" package to convert 'fig' format files to a
variety of other formats, such as LaTeX picture, EPS etc

finding transfig in the archive is done in the normal way

sebastian

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Date:    Sat, 23 Jan 93 14:37:16 +0000
From:    Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <TeX@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs>
Subject: New release of greektex

In a message dated Fri, 22 Jan 93 09:49:39 -0800 addressed to the 
ELLHNIKA Distribution List for ???????? TeX Users <ELLHNIKA@EARN.DHDURZ1>,
Yiannis Moschovakis <ynm@EDU.UCLA.MATH> announced a new version of
greektex, as follows:
 
A new version of greektex has been posted in the following two sites:
 
  math.ucla.edu    128.97.4.254
                   in the directory pub/moschovakis/greektex
 
  University of Stuttgart russoft server  129.69.1.12
                   in the directory tex/languages/greek/moschovakis

It has also been installed in the UK TeX Archive at Aston University
(Janet NIFTP: site UK.AC.TEX, username PUBLIC, password PUBLIC
 Internet ftp: host TeX.ac.uk, [134.151.40.18], username anonymous,
 password your-user-name) in the directory
[tex-archive.langs.greek.moschovakis]
  
greektex is a package of programs which make it easy to use the  well
known Greek text fonts of Silvio Levy in Plain TeX or LaTeX with the
full functionality of these sets of macros, exactly as we use them to
process English files. In fact greektex understands files with mixed
Greek and English text, so that it is particularly useful for the
typesetting of Greek scientific class notes, articles and books: these
typically contain many English words---names, references, scientific
terms traditionally given in both Greek and English when first
introduced, etc.
 
To install and use greektex you need to have a complete TeX (version 3.0
or later with its initex program) installed in your machine. You also
need the standard files needed to build plain TeX and LaTeX, including
hyphen.tex and latex.tex.
 
To print the dvi files produced by the system you need a 300 DPI
laserprinter and a dvi driver capable of handling 8 bit fonts. (Most do
by now.)
 
The easiest way to create the mixed Greek-English files used by the
system is on a PC with a VGA screen running DOS, and the package
includes the necessary programs and instructions for this. greektex
provides a method for creating "Greeklish" files in any system using a
monolingual (English) editor, but it is not very friendly in such an
environment.
 
The most notable improvement over the first distribution of greektex
two years ago is that the new system has a classical (polytoniko) mode
in which classical Greek can be typeset with its full set of aspiration
marks, accents, etc. The modern (monotoniko) mode has also been
improved substantially, primarily by allowing friendlier typesetting of
accented capitals, the diairesis and the Greek quotation marks (which
have been added). The package includes a complete set of all preloaded
and loaded-on-demand LaTeX fonts at 300 DPI, including the "Greek
italic" font which now looks reasonably good. It also includes the
complete set of metafont files and scaling programs used to produce
these fonts, so that someone with a running version of METAFONT can
compile them at any pointsize and resolution.
 
The starting point for greektex is the fact that English and Greek are
disjoint languages (no common letters in the internal coding), so their
union can be considered as a single language: there is no confusion in
hyphenation, for example, since no word is both Greek and English. The
system simply replaces the Computer  Modern fonts CMR, CMBX, etc. used
by TeX by extended fonts  GECMR, GECMBX, etc. which have exactly the
same letters coded in the first 128 ASCII characters but incorporate
the Greek letters in the high-bit ASCII characters >127. In doing this
you do not change at all the guts of format files, so that e.g. it is
easy to predict how greektex output of Greek LaTeX files will
look---exactly like LaTeX output, with Greek letters. There is a
conceptual simplicity to this, but also (and more to the point) it
makes it possible to use existing systems of macros (like LaTeX and its
many styles) on documents which contain mixed Greek and English with no
conflicts. The greektex version of LaTeX has complete LaTeX
functionality in the monononiko mode.
 
The polytoniko mode requires the use of a set of macros which make some
characters active and allow the "friendly" entering of aspiration
marks, accents, etc. It also appears to enjoy complete LaTeX
functionality (as far as I have been able to test it), it can jandle
e.g. footnotes, tabbing, etc. It is clear, however, that  reasonable
care must be exercised: one cannot enter math mode while the
\polytoniko command is in effect, for example, since the characters >,
<, = and " are active---and do not have their usual, math meaning. The
document greektex.doc explains in some detail the precautions needed to
insure (essentially) full LaTeX functionality in the polytoniko mode.
 
It has been argued that one cannot build a fully hyphenating system with
both English and classical Greek using 256 character fonts, because the
128 high-bit characters left free after English is coded do not suffice
to code as ligatures all the combinations of letter+accent+aspiration
mark needed by classical Greek. greektex solves this problem by coding
the most commonly occuring combinations as ligatures and depending on the
TeX  \accent primitive for the rest. This works much better than one
might think:
 
      greektex applies the hyphenation algorithm to
      all words which do not have either
             (1) an aspirated peripvmenh or
             (2) an accented letter with an iota subscript.
 
The words in category (1) have at most two syllables and rarely need to
be hyphenated, and there are just two few of those in category (2) to
cause any problem. Since Greek hyphenation is governed by flexible and
easy to code rules, it turns out that with this scheme, classical Greek
is hyphenated by greektex at least as successfully as TeX hyphenates
English.
 
A complete description of the system is given in the 00README.TXT file
and the manual "greektex.doc" included in the package. What follows is
the 00CONTENTS.TXT of the package.
 
INDEX of greektex-----------------------------------------------------
 
(1) 00README.TXT    General information and instructions for installing
                    the system.

(2) greektex.doc    The document describing how to use the system. 
                    It also gives the credits for the public domain 
                    programs used and distriibuted.

(3) pkunzip.exe     The program needed to uncompress zip files. [SEE NOTE]

(4) extkb.com       Extended keyboard program for the PC.

(5) vga_ligh.com    Greek character set loaders for the PC with 
    vga_bold.com    a VGA screen.

(6) geinputs.zip    The TeX input files needed by the system.

(7) getfm.zip       The tfm files for the English-Greek fonts.

(8) gepk.zip        The pk files for the English-Greek fonts.

(9) gemf.zip        The metafont files used to create the font, 
                    with a brief instruction document gemf.doc  
                    and some batch files for compiling fonts in 
                    additional pointsizes and resolutions.

(10) filters.zip    Two simple Greek-to-English and English-to-Greek 
                    filters (written in C) which make it (just barely) 
                    possible to create, read and convert files with 
                    mixed Greek and English text in a monolingual 
                    environment. See l2g.c for explanation.

(11) grsample.ps    Postcript file of a 15 page excerpt from
                    a Set Theory book which illustrates 
                    mathematical, monotoniko output (and 
                    plugs the book).
                     
(12) polyton.gr     Greek input file and Postcript file of a one
     polyton.ps     page document which illustrates the method for 
                    entering polytoniko and the output produced.

IMPORTANT. If you are getting these files by ftp, make sure that  (3) -
(10) are transmitted in binary mode. Files (3) - (5) and (9) - (12) are
not needed for installing and running greektex.

Yiannis N. Moschovakis
Department of Mathematics
UCLA, L.A. CA 90024
ynm@math.ucla.edu
 
January 1993

========================================================================
NOTE: In the UK TeX Archive at Aston University, Moschovakis' original INDEX
and README files have been renamed to 00CONTENTS.TXT and 00README.TXT
repsectively.  The file pkunzip.exe has NOT been put into the archive, because
it was felt that anyone using the archive who was PC-based would already have a
suitable program for unzipping the files.  Implementations of unzip for other
architectures also exist.

All binary files are stored, as is necessary in this archive, as
variable-length records, without carriage control, and with a record length of
512 bytes.  Access through NIFTP over Janet can transfer these files in binaary
mode to Vax and non-Vax alike; transfers to a Vax using /CODE=FAST wil result
in a file of the same format, which will need to be changed to fixed-length
records by means of the VMS CONVERT utility.  Access by anonymous ftp over the
Internet, by non-Vaxen, will succeed; users of intelligent VMS-based
implementations of ftp, such as MultiNet's, will also have to apply the CONVERT
utility.

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\section FILES OF INTEREST

    [tex-archive]00readme.txt
    [tex-archive]00directory.list        [tex-archive]00directory.size
    [tex-archive]00directory_dates.list  [tex-archive]00last30days.files
    [tex-archive.doc]TeX-FAQ.txt    (Frequently Asked Questions list)
    [tex-archive.doc]FAQ-Supplement-*.txt    (FAQ supplement)

\section DIGESTS

    This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory
      [tex-archive.digests.uktex.93]
    This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory
      [tex-archive.digests.texhax.93]
      Latest TeXhax: V93 #02

\section MEDIA DISTRIBUTIONS
    Postal addresses are given below.

\subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape
    Latest copy of May/June 1991 contains:
    TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities
    suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V
    tar format, 1600bpi, blockfactor 20, 1 file (36Mb)

    Copies available on:
       One 2400ft 0.5" tape sent to Aston with return labels AND return postage
   OR
       One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format (DC600A or DC6150)
       sent with envelope AND stamps for return postage to Nottingham
         (Due to currency exchange, this service is offered only within the UK)

\subsection VMS tapes
    VMS backup of the archive requires three 2400ft tapes at 6250bpi.
    VMS backup of TeX 2.991 plus PSprint requires one 2400ft tape.

\subsection Exabyte 8mm tapes
    Same contents available as 0.5" tapes.
    Following tape types available: SONY Video 8 cassette P5 90MP,
    MAXELL Video 8 cassette P5-90, TDK Video 8 cassette P5-90MPB

\section TeX IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR SMALL COMPUTERS

\subsection OzTeX V1.4 (for Macintosh)
    Send 7 UNFORMATTED 800K disks to Aston with return postage.

\subsection emTeX (for OS/2, PC-DOS and MS-DOS)
    The complete package (3.5" High density disk format ONLY)
    is available from Aston at a cost of 15 pounds sterling,
    including documentation, disks, post and packing (DO NOT SEND DISKS):
      specify Set A.
    Additional utilities including DVIPS, 5 pounds sterling:  specify Set B.
    FLI files for FX, 5 pounds sterling:  specify Set C.
    FLI files for P6M, 5 pounds sterling:  specify Set D.

    For general enquiries, and a free catalogue detailing other disk 
    formats, precompiled fonts and lots of other goodies, contact:
    Eigen PD Software, P.O. Box 722, Swindon SN2 6YB  (tel: 0793-611270)
    (JANET e-mail address: kellett@uk.ac.cran.rmcs)

\subsection TeX for the Atari ST
    All enquiries for disks etc. should be directed to:
    The South West Software Library, P.O. Box 562, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 2YD
    (JANET e-mail address: mdryden@uk.co.compulink.cix)

\section POSTAGE RATES
    All prices in Pounds Sterling.
    For Aston orders, make cheques payable to Aston University.

    0.5" tapes: UK: 2.50 (one tape),  5.00 (two tapes).
            Europe: 5.00 (one tape),  9.00 (two tapes).
            Outside Europe please enquire.
    8mm tapes:
            UK: 1.00,  Europe: 2.00.
    Quarter-inch cartridges:
            UK: 1.00,  Europe: 2.00.
    Diskettes:
    Quantity/Size   Europe   World    UK 1st   UK 2nd
      18/3.5"        3.10     5.10     1.40     1.10
      11/3.5"        1.80     2.90     0.80     0.65
      18/5.25"       1.20     2.00     0.60     0.50
      11/5.25"       0.80     1.30     0.50     0.35

\section POSTAL ADDRESSES
    Please include SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS for return postage.

    Peter Abbott
    Information Systems, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET

    David Osborne
    Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD
    (for Quarter-inch cartridges ONLY -- must include stamps for return postage)

\section UK TeX USERS GROUP

    For details, contact:
    David Penfold, Edgerton Publishing Services,
    30 Edgerton Road, Edgerton, Huddersfield HD3 3AD (tel: 0484 519462)
 or E McNeil-Sinclair, fax: 0272 236169
\bye

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