working towards a new release

[Alastair Reid]

> We're ready, I think. 

Excellent, I'll give HGL another round of testing with the latest
version.

> We do have a problem wrt. documentation though - the original docs
> are out-of-date and essentially dead, as the author isn't willing to
> part with the doc sources. So, either we rewrite from scratch or
> continue supplying .txt files along with the old user's manual.

Rewriting from scratch isn't too attractive.

Maybe we could collect the .txt together into a LaTeX file, and
include the old doc by reference?

It's not a perfect solution but it meanas that what we ship as the
documentation is up to date, can put the old doc in context, prints
nicely, and all that good stuff.

I've got a few days free so I could take a stab at this.

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