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2 <head>
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3 <title>AnaGram 2.40 Manual Supplement</title>
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8 <h1 align="center">AnaGram 2.40</h1>
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10 <h1 align="center">Supplement to User's Guide</h1>
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11 <p>
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12 AnaGram 2.40 is the first open-source release of AnaGram. It should be
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13 considered a beta version: it should be perfectly fine to use, but
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14 before adopting it permanently in place of 2.01, double-check that
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15 everything is behaving as expected. Please file a bug report on any
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16 discrepancies you encounter.
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19 <p>
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20 The intent going forward is to maintain AnaGram 2.40 with bug fixes
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21 (builds will be numbered 2.40.01, 2.40.02, etc.) with the next
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22 milestone being a fully stable, usable version numbered 2.50. Once
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23 that is ready, a new GUI is required, because the current GUI is both
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24 unportable and depends on an orphaned legacy toolkit; the first
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25 version with a new GUI is expected to be numbered 3.00.
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26 </p>
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28 <h2>Unix Support</h2>
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29 <p>
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30 The command-line version of AnaGram (<tt>agcl</tt>) can be compiled
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31 for, and will run on, most Unix and Unix-like systems. There is, for
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32 the moment, no GUI support on Unix.
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33 </p>
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35 <p>
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36 Note that while the Windows version of AnaGram will <em>run</em> in
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37 Wine, it does not, for the time being at least, run very well. Most
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38 seriously, problems with font handling cause all fonts to be the same,
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39 which makes the marked tokens (that is, where you are) in the File
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40 Trace and Grammar Trace become indistinguishable from the other
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41 tokens. This makes the user interface nearly impossible to use. For
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42 further detail, look at the file <tt>doc/admin/wine-issues.txt</tt> in
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43 the AnaGram source distribution.
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44 </p>
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46 <h2>Tidier Install</h2>
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47 <p>
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48 The separate <tt>AnaGram.cgb</tt> and <tt>AnaGram.hlp</tt> files that
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49 appeared in earlier releases of AnaGram are now compiled directly into
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50 the executable.
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51 </p>
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53 <h2>Manual Re-Typeset</h2>
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54 <p>
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55 The manual has been translated from WordPerfect to LaTeX and re-set.
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56 As of this writing, the manual's index is in disarray. We hope to have
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57 this cleaned up in time for the projected 2.50 release.
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58 </p>
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60 <h2>Internal Cleanup</h2>
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61 <p>
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62 The source tree has been rearranged and tidied up for public release;
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63 so has much of the source code itself. The entire build system and all
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64 makefiles have been replaced.
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65 </p>
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67 <h2>Bug Fixes</h2>
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68 <p>
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69 A few bugs have been fixed.
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70 See <A HREF=whatsnew.html>whatsnew.html</A> for details.
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71 </p>
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73 <h2>Internal Errors</h2>
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74 <p>
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75 The reporting of internal errors has been changed to be more
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76 consistent with an open-source program; internal errors are now
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77 readable messages with a source file and line number rather than magic
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78 code numbers.
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79 </p>
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81 <h2>Trial Copies</h2>
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82 <p>
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83 All the logic for dealing with trial copies, serial numbers,
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84 registration, and so forth has been removed.
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85 </p>
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87 <h2>Character-Set Limitation</h2>
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89 It has been ascertained that AnaGram can currently only handle
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90 character sets up to 16 bits wide; thus, the larger Unicode sets will
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91 not work. In at least some cases, attempts to use wider character sets
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92 will cause assertion failures in AnaGram itself. This is a bug and we
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93 hope to get it sorted out in time for the 2.50 release.
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94 </p>
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96 </body>
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