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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING MATERIAL TO THE REDUCE NETWORK LIBRARY
- We encourage users to send contributions to the REDUCE network library. The
- rules are simple, and are designed to increase the effectiveness of the
- contribution rather than make more work for the contributor.
- Messages (and also code comments if possible) should be in English. REDUCE
- is an international system, used by scientists in many countries who speak
- many different languages. The only way to make such a system effective is
- to have all dialog in one language, which for obvious reasons is English.
- Lines of code should have a maximum length of 71 characters, and only
- contain the symbols listed in the REDUCE User's Manual. Other files
- should not contain lines longer than 80 characters. No file should be
- more than 100,000 bytes long. This is required so that all known REDUCE
- systems can process the code, and electronic mail systems handle the
- transmission of the relevant files.
- In the case of a complete package, the following is required:
- 1. A header comment listing
- a) the title of the program,
- b) the name and address of the author(s), including network address,
- c) the date of the program,
- d) a brief abstract,
- e) the version of REDUCE required,
- f) relevant publications,
- g) appropriate keywords.
- 2. A separate document file describing the use of the program, preferably
- in LaTeX using the style file reduce.sty in the documents directory.
- 3. A test file. This should consist of a sequence of commands that neither
- read input nor output to files other than the standard output device.
- 4. A log of the output from running the test file.
- 5. A signed REDUCE Contribution Form giving us rights to the
- distribution of the code.
- For smaller code fragments and other material, only the signed form is
- needed. This form follows.
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