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A lot of comment and doc fixes. Replace: 'nil by nil, '() by nil, 't by t. (ps-print-version): New version number (3.05). (ps-zebra-stripe, ps-number-of-zebra, ps-line-number) (ps-print-background-image, ps-print-background-text): New variables to customize zebra stripes, line number, image background and text background features, respectively. (ps-adobe-tag): Tagged to PostScript level 3. (ps-print-buffer, ps-print-buffer-with-faces) (ps-print-region, ps-print-region-with-faces) (ps-spool-buffer, ps-spool-buffer-with-faces) (ps-spool-region, ps-spool-region-with-faces): Call more primitive functions for PostScript printing (functions below). (ps-print-with-faces, ps-print-without-faces) (ps-spool-with-faces, ps-spool-without-faces): More primitive functions for PostScript printing. (ps-line-lengths, ps-nb-pages-buffer, ps-nb-pages-region) (ps-line-lengths-internal, ps-nb-pages): Doc fixes. (ps-print-prologue-1): a lot of PostScript programming: /dobackgroundstring, /dounderline, /UL: Postscript functions deleted. /reencodeFontISO, /F, /BG, /HL, /W, /S, /BeginDSCPage, /BeginPage, /EndPage: adjusted for new effects (outline, shadow, etc). /PLN, /EF, /Hline, /doBox, /doRect, /doShadow, /doOutline, /FillBgColor, /doLineNumber, /printZebra, /doColumnZebra, /doZebra, /BeginBackImage, /EndBackImage, /ShowBackText: New procedures. (ps-current-underline-p, ps-set-underline): Var and fn deleted. (ps-showline-count, ps-background-pages, ps-background-all-pages) (ps-background-text-count, ps-background-image-count): New variables. (ps-header-font, ps-header-title-font) (ps-header-line-height, ps-header-title-line-height) (ps-landscape-page-height): Set initial value to nil. (ps-print-face-extension-alist, ps-print-face-map-alist): New variables for face remapping. (ps-new-faces, ps-extend-face-list, ps-extend-face): New functions for face remapping. (ps-override-list, ps-extension-to-bit-face) (ps-extension-to-screen-face, ps-extension-bit) (ps-initialize-faces, ps-map-font-lock, ps-screen-to-bit-face): New internal functions for face remapping. (ps-get-page-dimensions): Fix error message. (ps-insert-file): Doc fix and programming enhancement. (ps-begin-file, ps-end-file, ps-get-buffer-name, ps-begin-page) (ps-next-line, ps-plot-region, ps-face-attributes) (ps-face-attribute-list, ps-plot-with-face) (ps-generate-postscript-with-faces): Handle new output features. (ps-generate): save-excursion inserted to return back point at position before calling ps-print. (ps-do-spool): Access dos-ps-printer variable through symbol-value. (ps-prsc, ps-c-prsc, ps-s-prsc): Use backquote. (ps-basic-plot-whitespace, ps-emacs-face-kind-p): Internal blank line eliminated. (ps-float-format, ps-current-effect): New internal variables. (ps-output-list, ps-count-lines, ps-background-pages) (ps-get-boundingbox, ps-float-format, ps-background-text) (ps-background-image, ps-background, ps-header-height) (ps-get-face): New internal functions. (ps-control-character): Handle control characters. (ps-gnus-print-article-from-summary): Updated for Gnus 5. (ps-jack-setup): Replace 'nil by nil, 't by t.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Wed, 20 Aug 1997 23:11:35 +0000
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;;; soundex.el --- implement Soundex algorithm

;; Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Christian Plaunt <chris@bliss.berkeley.edu>
;; Maintainer: FSF 
;; Keywords: matching
;; Created: Sat May 15 14:48:18 1993

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;; The Soundex algorithm maps English words into representations of
;; how they sound.  Words with vaguely similar sound map to the same string.

;;; Code: 

(defvar soundex-alist
  '((?B . "1") (?F . "1") (?P . "1") (?V . "1")
    (?C . "2") (?G . "2") (?J . "2") (?K . "2") (?Q . "2") (?S . "2")
    (?X . "2") (?Z . "2") (?D . "3") (?T . "3") (?L . "4") (?M . "5")
    (?N . "5") (?R . "6"))
  "Alist of chars-to-key-code for building Soundex keys.")

(defun soundex (word)
  "Return a Soundex key for WORD.
Implemented as described in:
Knuth, Donald E. \"The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3: Sorting
and Searching\", Addison-Wesley (1973), pp. 391-392."
  (let* ((word (upcase word)) (length (length word))
	 (code (cdr (assq (aref word 0) soundex-alist)))
	 (key (substring word 0 1)) (index 1) (prev-code code))
    ;; once we have a four char key, we're done
    (while (and (> 4 (length key)) (< index length))
      ;; look up the code for each letter in word at index
      (setq code (cdr (assq (aref word index) soundex-alist))
	    index (1+ index)
	    ;; append code to key unless the same codes belong to
	    ;; adjacent letters in the original string
	    key (concat key (if (or (null code) (string= code prev-code))
				()
			      code))
	    prev-code code))
    ;; return a key that is 4 chars long and padded by "0"s if needed
    (if (> 4 (length key))
	(substring (concat key "000") 0 4)
      key)))

;(defvar soundex-test
;  '("Euler" "Gauss" "Hilbert" "Knuth" "Lloyd" "Lukasiewicz"
;    "Ellery" "Ghosh" "Heilbronn" "Kant" "Ladd" "Lissajous")
;  "\n  Knuth's names to demonstrate the Soundex algorithm.")
;
;(mapcar 'soundex soundex-test)
;("E460" "G200" "H416" "K530" "L300" "L222"
; "E460" "G200" "H416" "K530" "L300" "L222")

(provide 'soundex)

;; soundex.el ends here