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From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin)
Newsgroups: net.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL Idioms
Message-ID: <318@cubsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 21:05:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 21:05:17 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:24:59 EST
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Reply-To: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin)
Organization: Columbia Univ Biology, New York City
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Summary: 

>							The synonym
>list has its useful and obvious advantages, but I have never seen
>anything like the permuted index before, and it is really nice.
>For instance, the entry "polynomial with roots x" appears in at
>least two places in the list, under polynomial, and under roots.
>The lines for these two entries have the same words, but the
>indentation is controlled so that the key word appears in the
>middle of the page. 
>

Look at the beginning of the UNIX manual;  lo, all commands entered
in a permuted index!

Peter S. Shenkin			cubsvax!peters