typewriters of the period did not have. This distinction has been
added in the present text.</para>
-<para>Some program listings in the original were missing continuation
-punches that appear to be required by the language; this was probably
-due to transcription errors in the original. These have been
-corrected, and the corrections noted in XML comments.</para>
-
<para>Most of the original listings were typed so there was whitespace
between remark or continuation punches and following statements or
comments. The language's card-based, column-sensitive format did not
hand-drawn across them). The original also some contained hand-drawn
script characters:</para>
-<para>The above notes fail to properly convey just how primitive the
-original document looks to a modern eye, and this is worth noting
-because this transcription into DocBook makes it look a lot less so.
-Standards have risen in a world saturated with the Web and cheap page
-printers. The original manual's monospace fonts on yellowing paper
-with hand-drawn figures and special characters look quaint and
-ugly by contrast.</para>
-
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols='2'>
<thead>
automatically. We have assumed the former and restored needed
continuation punches in several listings.</para>
+<para>The above notes fail to properly convey just how primitive the
+original document looks to a modern eye, and this is worth noting
+because transcription into DocBook makes it look a lot less so.
+Standards have risen in a world saturated with the Web and cheap page
+printers. The original manual's monospace fonts on yellowing paper
+with hand-drawn figures and special characters look quaint and
+ugly by contrast.</para>
+
</sect1>
</preface>
<preface><title>The Michigan Algorithm Decoder</title>