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UKTeX Digest    Monday, 22 Feb 1993    Volume 93 : Issue 07

   ``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}:
                                     Bibtex
                                   Re: Bibtex
                                   RE: Bibtex
                                 RE: RE: Bibtex
                       Technical plus membership enquiry
                     Re: Technical plus membership enquiry
                        Printing gawk manual using PS40
                                 Re: Expansion
                       Re: putting a \strut on every line
                           Re: Expanding token lists
                           re: Reading in definitions
                    dvieps settings for Epson LQ 850 printer
                                 draftcopy.sty
                               Re: draftcopy.sty
                              Database and Reports
                            Re: Database and Reports
                          Re: Re: Database and Reports
                       Hyphenation pattern space in emTeX
                     Re: Hyphenation pattern space in emTeX
                         Source for Web2C in DOS format
                       Re: Source for Web2C in DOS format
                           Dramatic Scripts in LaTeX
 {Archive News}:
                      additions to uk tex internet archive
                    BibTeX HyperCard stack in uk tex archive
                         dvips 5.512 in uk tex archive
                interruption to service on ftp.tex.ac.uk (over)
                      seminar 0.93 in UK Internet Archive


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:    Thu, 11 Feb 1993 19:33:34 +0700
From:    Petra zur Lage <eanv13@uk.ac.edinburgh.castle>
Subject: Bibtex

I have come across a problem when using Bibtex.
I am using Bibliographystyle(plain).  Whenever I write a name
in italics in the title, it ignores the capital letter i.e. Homo sapiens
turns into homo sapiens (and that of course in italics). Can anybody
tell me how to avoid this, apart from editing the bbl file!!

Thanks,
Petra
eanv13@uk.ac.ed.castle

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

Date:    13 Feb 1993 13:04:26 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Bibtex

 > in italics in the title, it ignores the capital letter i.e. Homo sapiens
 > turns into homo sapiens (and that of course in italics). Can anybody
 > tell me how to avoid this, apart from editing the bbl file!!
 > 
a) read the manual
b) write "{Homo sapiens}" not "Homo sapiens"

sebastian

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

Date:    Mon, 15 Feb 1993 14:17:20 +0000
From:    Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <TeX@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs>
Subject: RE: Bibtex

In message <9302111933.aa17996@castle.ed.ac.uk>  of Thu, 11 Feb 93
19:33:34 WET,  Petra zur Lage <eanv13@uk.ac.edinburgh.castle> wrote:

> I have come across a problem when using Bibtex.
> I am using Bibliographystyle(plain).  Whenever I write a name
> in italics in the title, it ignores the capital letter i.e. Homo sapiens
> turns into homo sapiens (and that of course in italics). Can anybody
> tell me how to avoid this, apart from editing the bbl file!!

Because certain journals lay down stringent instructions as to when
words are or are not capitalized, BibTeX obeys the rules in the .bst
file rather than whatever you might specify in the .bib file.

However, you *can* force BibTeX to obey your requirements, by enclosing
the letter in TeX's usual braces.  Therefore you'd write {H}omo
{S}apiens.   But I hope that your reference to italics in your message
is relating to an artefact of BibTeX (in that it decides, depending upon
the style file, whether certain fields shall appear in italics, slant,
roman, etc)?  Because you really ought not to be specifying italics
directly (although I conceed you might use \em at a pinch, which would
tend to have the same effect).

Brian {Hamilton Kelly}

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

Date:    Mon, 15 Feb 1993 14:30:56 +0000
From:    Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: RE: RE: Bibtex

>>> But I hope that your reference to italics in your message
>>> is relating to an artefact of BibTeX (in that it decides, depending upon
>>> the style file, whether certain fields shall appear in italics, slant,
>>> roman, etc)?  Because you really ought not to be specifying italics
>>> directly (although I conceed you might use \em at a pinch, which would
>>> tend to have the same effect).

Hart (pp~6--7) says ``Both parts should be printed in italic, with the
generic name given an initial capital''.  It therefore seems perfectly
reasonable to me that the user _should_ be specifying italics directly.

Philip Taylor, RHBNC.

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

Date:    Fri, 12 Feb 1993 09:15:36 +0000
From:    Peter Abbott <p.abbott@uk.ac.aston>
Subject: Technical plus membership enquiry

I have been attempting to get emtex386 running on my system.  However when
trying to unpack the beta-7 btex package pkunzip gives a number of CRC
errors and bad table errors and no FMT files are installed in the btexfmts
directory as required.  The alternative is to get the FMT files using
INITEX386 as I understand but this program isn't included in the overall
emtex distribution package.

Yours sincerely

Stephen E Leicester

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

Date:    13 Feb 1993 14:20:38 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Technical plus membership enquiry

 > I have been attempting to get emtex386 running on my system.  However when
 > trying to unpack the beta-7 btex package pkunzip gives a number of CRC
 > errors and bad table errors and no FMT files are installed in the btexfmts
 > directory as required.  The alternative is to get the FMT files using
 > INITEX386 as I understand but this program isn't included in the overall
 > emtex distribution package.

could this seems to confused two packages. btexb8.zip is a beta test
version of a *non*386 large TeX, which runs slowly. tex386b8.zip is a
386-specific version, which is what you want.

there is  no such beast as initex386 - in the emTeX package, there is
a single executable for virtex and initex, and `initex' behaviour is
obtained with the -i switch.

the betatest packages can all be obtained from the UK TeX Archive

sebastian

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

Date:    Fri, 12 Feb 1993 16:51:00 +0000
From:    "R.MURPHY" <CCG1380@uk.ac.queens-belfast.vax2>
Subject: Printing gawk manual using PS40

One of our users wants to print out a copy of the Gawk manual which he 
downloaded from your system. He eventually managed to create a DVI file
but cannot create a postscript file from this to use with our PS40 printer.
We use the PSPRINT/dev=PS40/dvi command at this site.
Our Tex expert is on long term absence due to illness, and I know very little
about TeX/LaTeX.
We have had a few other problems creating a postscript file after the DVI file
had been created successfully, the usual error being
        bad precommand .
and a reference to a font eg. CIRCLE10.360PK

Are we doing something wrong, or is it the case that PS40 printers cannot use
some of the fonts?

R.Murphy

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

Date:    Fri, 12 Feb 1993 17:59:28 -0800
From:    Donald Arseneau <asnd%ca.triumf.erich@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Re: Expansion

Mark Templeton <Mark.Templeton@hermes.mod.uk> had two questions 
in UKtex recently:

% I needed to be able to append or prepend to [\everypar]; i.e., to add
% my own hooks whilst preserving those already in place.
%  
% The only way I could find to do this was:
%  
%     \let\TmpPar=\expandafter{\the\everypar}
%     \everypar={ \ifMyFlag \global\MyFlagfalse \fi \TmpPar}
%

This doesn't work.  But the concept is sound.

Appending (postpending?) is easy:

  \everypar\expandafter{\the\everypar Plus my additions}

Prepending is messier:

  \def\myep{My additions to everypar}
  \everypar \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter {\expandafter
     \myep \the\everypar}

% I have a set of macros which some users need, but others don't.
% It would be nice to be able to load them transparently, when required,
% by saying something like
%  
%         if MyMacro is undefined
%                 \input Macrofile
%                 use definition of MyMacro from Macrofile
%  
% such that the macros would only be loaded once, and only when needed.
[too-fancy example deleted]

It's really *very* easy:

  \def\mymacro{\input mymacrofile \relax \mymacro}

One caution:  Use \gdef in the macro file in case \mymacro is first
used in a group.

Donald Arseneau        asnd@reg.triumf.ca

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

Date:    Fri, 12 Feb 1993 18:15:54 -0800
From:    Donald Arseneau <asnd%ca.triumf.erich@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Re: putting a \strut on every line

Richard Kaye wanted to put struts on every line to align the tops
of boxes.

Although it is possible to use active spaces to put struts between 
words, there are much easier and clearer solutions to the problem.

1) Measure the height of the first row:

\setbox\scratch=\vtop{\unvcopy\whatever}
\HeightOfFirstRow=\ht\scratch

2) Make the first rows line up unless one is VERY tall (taller than 
\baselineskip):

\setbox\whatever=\vbox{\prevdepth=0pt whatever fills the box}

Donald Arseneau      asnd@reg.triumf.ca

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

Date:    Sun, 14 Feb 1993 14:12:56 -0500
From:    hanche%edu.sunysb.ams@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Re: Expanding token lists

 > I use a number of strange include files for TeX, which were not
 > written by me. One of the effects of these is to assign to \everypar.
 > I needed to be able to append or prepend to this list; i.e., to add
 > my own hooks whilst preserving those already in place.

 > The only way I could find to do this was:

 >     \let\TmpPar=\expandafter{\the\everypar}
 >     \everypar={ \ifMyFlag \global\MyFlagfalse \fi \TmpPar}

 > thereby prepending my bit.

 > This seems very messy.
 > Is there a better way to do this?

Yes:

\def\prependto#1#2{%
  {\toks0={#2}\edef\0{\noexpand#1={\the\toks0 \the#1}}\expandafter}\0}
%% This space is ESSENTIAL! -----------------^
\prependto\everypar{\ifMyFlag \global\MyFlagfalse \fi}

The key to the secret is that inside an \edef, \the\someTokenRegister
is only expanded one level.  Of course, using this macro you can not
prepend to \toks0...

- - Harald

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

Date:    15 Feb 1993 09:52:31 -0000
From:    M.Piff@uk.ac.sheffield
Subject: re: Reading in definitions

Mark Templeton writes:
>       I have a set of macros which some users need, but others don't.
>       It would be nice to be able to load them transparently, when required,
>       by saying something like
>
>               if MyMacro is undefined
>                       \input Macrofile
>                       use definition of MyMacro from Macrofile
>
>       such that the macros would only be loaded once, and only when needed.
>
>       Unfortunately, I can't see any way to replace the local definition
>       with the one from the macro file.

Try the following:

\def\ReadIn#1#2{\def#1{\input#2\relax#1}}%%%Note that the parameters to
                                         %%%command #1 are supplied in its
                                         %%%definition in file #2. You do
                                         %%%not have to give them here.

\ReadIn\MyMacro{macdef1}
\ReadIn\YourMacro{macdef1}
\ReadIn\HerMacro{macdef2}

\MyMacro{good} is better than \YourMacro{poor}, but \HerMacro{excellent}
is best of all.

\end

Note that \MyMacro\ will cause macdef1 to be read, and so \YourMacro\
will be defined as well. macdef1 is only read once.
If you want scope rules to be ignored, use \gdef\ in the macro files,
or change \globaldefs.

Dr M J Piff
Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Sheffield

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

Date:    Mon, 15 Feb 1993 13:39:35 +0100
From:    woerz%de.gueldener@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: dvieps settings for Epson LQ 850 printer

I have a little problem here. I try to persuade the dvieps filter to print on a
Epson LQ 850 printer, but I cannot figure out what XDPI, YDPI and resolution
values to use. Either the characters are too broad, or the line spacing is to
big or too small, or the text is cut to the left or the right, but I don't seem
to get it right. Has anyone succeded printing on such a beast? What version did
you use? What values for XDPI, YDPI and resolution did you use?
Besides, I am using dvieps.c version 2.10 [experimental].

Thanks in advance

Dieter
- -- 
Zahnaerztliches Rechenzentrum Dr. Gueldener GmbH
Dieter Woerz            INTERNET:       woerz@gueldener.de       
Marienstr. 10           UUCP:           unido!zahn!woerz         
D-7000 Stuttgart-1      BITNET/EARN:    woerz%gueldener.de@unido.bitnet

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

Date:    Tue, 16 Feb 1993 18:18:00 -0000
From:    CBLACKBURN@uk.ac.luton.vax2
Subject: draftcopy.sty

I am trying to find the .sty file draftcopy.sty but I am not having much
luck in the path given in TeX digest 93_02.  Could anyone tell me where
it is?

Also, are the any .zip files available for collected .pk of .tfm files, as
my ftp doesn't like wild cards, and downloading 600ish ams fonts would
kill my fingers!

Colin Blackburn
Research Centre
Luton College of HE
Luton
Beds
0582 456843x29

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

Date:    16 Feb 1993 19:31:09 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: draftcopy.sty

 > my ftp doesn't like wild cards, and downloading 600ish ams fonts would
 > kill my fingers!

the internet uk tex archive, ftp.tex.ac.uk, permits dynamic zip
creation of archive directory structures. say you want all of dvips,
you ask for
 /pub/archive/dviware/dvips.zip
in order to have all of /pub/archive/dviware/dvips packaged up on the
spot for you

Sebastian

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

Date:    Wed, 17 Feb 1993 09:16:31 +0000
From:    Peter Abbott <p.abbott@uk.ac.aston>
Subject: Database and Reports

I have a requirement to store names and addresses (plus other information)
and to generate a variety of reports, i.e. selecting from the database
on specified criteria.

I want to use LaTeX for the reports and do not really want to hand pick
items. I have seen various articles on the use of databases with TeX.
It seems to me that BiBTeX might be the answer.

Has anyone used this route? What other ways has this problem been tackled?

Help?

Peter

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

Date:    Wed, 17 Feb 1993 09:52:48 +0000
From:    Adrian F Clark <alien@uk.ac.essex>
Subject: Re: Database and Reports

On Wed, 17 FEB 93 09:25:03 GMT, Peter Abbott said:

>> I have a requirement to store names and addresses (plus other information)
>> and to generate a variety of reports, i.e. selecting from the database
>> on specified criteria.

>> I want to use LaTeX for the reports and do not really want to hand pick
>> items. I have seen various articles on the use of databases with TeX.
>> It seems to me that BiBTeX might be the answer.

>> Has anyone used this route? What other ways has this problem been tackled?

I have used an approach whereby I store the names and addresses in a
file as follows:

N: Dr Ano Nymous Person
A: Department of Cryptic Studies
   University of Somewhere
   Somewhere
E: anon@somewhere.ac.uk
P: (0261) 261261
F: (0261) 612612
K: cryptographer, TeXxie

with a blank line separating entries and use Awk or Perl scripts to
select people that match my criteria and output addres labels,
letters, etc.  Not terribly sophisticated, but good enough for my
simple needs.

I'm sure BibTeX would work, but I find Awk and Perl easier to program;
your mileage may vary.

..Adrian

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

Date:    17 Feb 1993 10:17:33 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Re: Database and Reports

 > >> I have a requirement to store names and addresses (plus other
 > >> information) and to generate a variety of reports, i.e.
 > >> selecting from the database on specified criteria.
 > 
 > >> I want to use LaTeX for the reports and do not really want to hand pick
 > >> items. I have seen various articles on the use of databases with TeX.
 > >> It seems to me that BiBTeX might be the answer.
 > 
 > I have used an approach whereby I store the names and addresses in a
 > file as follows:
 > 
 > N: Dr Ano Nymous Person
 > A: Department of Cryptic Studies
 >    University of Somewhere
 >    Somewhere
 > E: anon@somewhere.ac.uk
 > P: (0261) 261261
 > F: (0261) 612612
 > K: cryptographer, TeXxie
 > 
 > with a blank line separating entries and use Awk or Perl scripts to
 > select people that match my criteria and output addres labels,

the reason I think that BibTeX is a good route, rather than Adrian's
Awk and Perl, is that it has a lot of builtin functionality to deal
with names and sorting, and elimination of duplicates. so you can
throw at it a whole slew of \cite commands, confident that it will do
the sensible thing. 

I maintain quite a complicated system with 
a) a BibTeX document database, where each document has a distribution
   category (eg `Management')
b) a BibTeX catalogue of people
c) a set of TeX macros expanding \Management to
   \cite{Bloggs,Jones,Major}

This allows me to have a trivial script which I can ask to print
address labels for distributing a document, by
 a) a run of BibTeX on the document database, with a \cite of the
    document number, which writes the distribution category
 b) an expansion by TeX of that category to a \cite list
 c) a BiBTeX run on the addresses to write labels

BUT (and its a big BUT), learning to write BibTeX `programs' is not a
simple task. But then if you are not happy with Awk or Perl either...
My starting point was that I needed BibTeX anyway, to do the right
style of bibliographies, so I have learn to use the language.

The moral is that the best system is the one you are familiar with,
whether its Perl, dBase, BASIC, PL/1, Oracle or Word programming
language. They'll all do the job.

Sebastian

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

Date:    Wed, 17 Feb 1993 13:41:08 +0000
From:    Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@uk.ac.cambridge.computer-lab>
Subject: Hyphenation pattern space in emTeX

I'm running emtex386b8, which I understand to be a `big' TeX (though
the `b' stands for \beta).  I tried loading Dominik & Graham's UK
English hyphenation patterns (said to need approx. 14K units of
pattern space), and the thing collapsed on me, saying it only had 10K
units of space.

Is there a version of emTeX that offers more pattern space? - and if
so, where might I get it from.  (b8 is the version currently in the
Aston archive, and I understand it's kept pretty much up-to-date.)

Robin

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Date:    17 Feb 1993 13:51:55 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Hyphenation pattern space in emTeX

 > I'm running emtex386b8, which I understand to be a `big' TeX (though
 > the `b' stands for \beta).  I tried loading Dominik & Graham's UK
 > English hyphenation patterns (said to need approx. 14K units of
 > pattern space), and the thing collapsed on me, saying it only had 10K
 > units of space.

try reading the documentation, chief. you can give flags to emtex to
increase the pattern space

 > so, where might I get it from.  (b8 is the version currently in the
 > Aston archive, and I understand it's kept pretty much up-to-date.)
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
aston mirrors Stuttgart, where Mattes puts things, on a weekly basis.
so i concede we may be up to 6 days out of date at times

sebastian

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Date:    Thu, 18 Feb 1993 09:12:00 +0000
From:    SWILCOX1@uk.ac.poly-of-wales.computer-centre.genvax
Subject: Source for Web2C in DOS format

I have spent a quite a bit of time trying to look for the C source to
the Web2C package that I can pull back to a DOS based machine. If anyone
knows if and where it resides and could tell me I would be ver gratefull.

Yours,
Dr. S.J.Wilcox

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Date:    18 Feb 1993 09:57:05 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Source for Web2C in DOS format

 > I have spent a quite a bit of time trying to look for the C source to
 > the Web2C package that I can pull back to a DOS based machine. If anyone
 > knows if and where it resides and could tell me I would be ver gratefull.

I think the general opinion is that while theoretically possible, this
is not currently a sensible idea. the recommendation is to run the
first part of the web2c process on a Unix machine, and then take the
generated C sources over to your PC and compile them there. If you
simply want a TeX etc for DOS, its difficult to see why this would be
very useful, given the free availability of the very fine emTeX collection.

Or maybe I misinterpet you, and you literally mean the source of web2c
itself. Its bits of C and yacc, as I recall, and can be found in the
generic Unix source, available from any TeX archive. eg on uk.ac.tex,
in [tex-archive.src.unix-archives]web2c*

Sebastian Rahtz

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Date:    Thu, 18 Feb 1993 10:32:04 +0000
From:    ee01th@uk.ac.surrey.ee
Subject: Dramatic Scripts in LaTeX

I wish to use LaTeX for Dramatic Scripts, so I get the name
of each character in bold and everything they say aligned
in the following manner:

Bill:  Here we go round the Mulberry bush, the Mulberry bush
       The Mulberry Bush
Ben:   On a cold and Frosty Morning.


ie each character's text lines up in the same place, no
matter how long the names are.  What is the best way to do
this?  I will still want stage directions between lines of
speech occasionally.

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Date:    13 Feb 1993 16:31:07 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: additions to uk tex internet archive

new items on ftp.tex.ac.uk.

help/greek.faq
  helpful notes by Dimitrios Filippou about choosing from the
  bewildering variety of TeX fonts and macros for typesetting Greek

systems/commontex/
  not a new release of Common TeX, just the first time its made it
  into the archive

bibliography/tib/
  again, not a new release, but what I hope is the correct current
  version at last

Sebastian Rahtz


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Date:    16 Feb 1993 11:37:25 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: BibTeX HyperCard stack in uk tex archive

ftp.tex.ac.uk:bibliography/bibtex/utils/hyperbibtex/hyperbibtex0.95d.sit.hqx

   HyperBibTeX (version 0.9.5d, 12-Nov-92) is a Macintosh HyperCard
   stack for managing bibliography databases compatible with BibTeX,
   the bibliography system used by the TeX typesetting language.
   HyperBibTeX's features include:

     * entering and editing bibliographic entries using BibTeX's entry types 
       (Book, Article, Proceedings, etc.),
     * checking data integrity and consistency against a set of
       authority lists,
     * searching the database,
     * marking cards individually or with the search function,
     * exporting cards to a BibTeX file,
     * importing entries from a BibTeX file.

   HyperBibTeX requires HyperCard version 2. It should ru fine under
   system 6, but the Balloon Help facility requires system 7.


   Evan Antworth
   Academic Computing Department
   Summer Institute of Linguistics
   7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
   Dallas, TX  75236
   U.S.A.

   Internet e-mail: antworth@am.dallas.sil.org
   phone:  214/709-2418
   fax:    214/709-2433


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Date:    16 Feb 1993 15:46:04 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: dvips 5.512 in uk tex archive

uk.ac.tex:[TEX-ARCHIVE.SRC.UNIX-ARCHIVES]dvips5512.tarz_uue

ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/archive/dviware/dvips/

the changes do not appear to be very great, but its nice to see 5.5 at
last...

sebastian rahtz

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Date:    18 Feb 1993 09:50:41 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: interruption to service on ftp.tex.ac.uk (over)

Apologies to the TeX community who use the internet archive on
ftp.tex.ac.uk. A slight case of `finger trouble' on my part deleted
the entire archive on Wednesday (!), and removed service for 24 hours.
It is now 99% restored to its former glory. A few items are still
awaiting restoration from the parallel archive in the USA (George
Greenwade comes to the rescue like the champ he is), but this will be
finished by the time you read this.

Sebastian Rahtz

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Date:    18 Feb 1993 14:18:04 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: seminar 0.93 in UK Internet Archive

macros/latex/styles/contrib/seminar/
  latest and greatest version of Timothy Van Zandt's LaTeX style for
  doing slides. do upgrade - there are many changes. 

SPQR

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