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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1996-03-10 17:29:32 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1996-03-10 17:29:32 +0000
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downloademacs-93fd4a9efaf4a77b056be1b0d161de349bcc4686.tar.gz
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diff --git a/etc/tasks.texi b/etc/tasks.texi
index 2515307baad..8f218773759 100644
--- a/etc/tasks.texi
+++ b/etc/tasks.texi
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
@setfilename tasks.info
@settitle GNU Task List
@c UPDATE THIS DATE WHENEVER YOU MAKE CHANGES!
-@set lastupdate 6 April 1995
+@set lastupdate 10 March 1996
@c %**end of header
@setchapternewpage off
@@ -93,12 +93,11 @@ A manual for programming X-window applications.
Manuals for various X window managers.
@item
-Reference cards for those manuals that don't have them: Gawk, C
+Reference cards for those manuals that don't have them: C
Compiler, Make, Texinfo, Termcap and maybe the C Library.
@item
-Many utilities need documentation, including @code{grep}, @code{cpio},
-and other small utilities.
+Many utilities need documentation, including @code{grep} and others.
@end itemize
@node Unix-Related Projects
@@ -213,11 +212,6 @@ An emulator for Macintosh graphics calls on top of X Windows.
A music playing and editing system.
@item
-A "disk jockey" program to keep track of a collection of recorded music
-samples (songs, etc), and queue up a sequence of them for playing. This
-program could use rplay to do the actual playing.
-
-@item
A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display
dancers moving on the screen.
@@ -258,16 +252,6 @@ send them to @code{gnu@@prep.ai.mit.edu}.
@itemize @bullet
@item
-[This seems to be being done:]
-A program to convert Postscript to plain ASCII text. Ghostscript will
-soon have a mode to output all the text strings in a document, each with
-its coordinates. You could write a program to start with this output
-and ``layout the page'' in ASCII. The program will be both easier and
-more useful if you don't worry pedantically about how the output text
-should be formatted. Instead, try to make it look reasonable as plain
-ASCII.
-
-@item
A program to convert compiled programs represented in OSF ANDF
(``Architecture Neutral Distribution Format'') into ANSI C.
@@ -278,6 +262,10 @@ An imitation of Page Maker or Ventura Publisher.
An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3} (How dbased!)
@item
+A text-based Web browser, somewhat like Lynx (which, unfortunately,
+is not free software).
+
+@item
A program to reformat Fortran programs in a way that is pretty.
@item
@@ -290,7 +278,7 @@ A general ledger program.
@item
A program to typeset C code for printing.
-For ideas on what to do, see the forthcoming book,
+For ideas on what to do, see the book,
@display
Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs,
@@ -320,7 +308,7 @@ Software to replace card catalogues in libraries.
Grammar and style checking programs.
@item
-An implementation of the S language (an interpreted languages used for
+An implementation of the S language (an interpreted language used for
statistics).
@item
@@ -329,16 +317,7 @@ A translator from Scheme to C.
@item
Optical character recognition programs; especially if suitable for
scanning documents with multiple fonts and capturing font info as well
-as character codes. This may not be very difficult if you let it
-@emph{train} on part of the individual document to be scanned, so as to
-learn what fonts are in use in that document. We would particularly
-like to scan the Century Dictionary, an unabridged dictionary now in the
-public domain.
-
-You don't need scanning hardware to work on OCR. We can send you
-bitmaps you can use as test data.
-
-We may soon have an OCR program, but it will need lots of additional work.
+as character codes. Work is being done on this, but more help is needed.
@item
A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to Postscript.
@@ -356,9 +335,6 @@ Software suitable for creating virtual reality user interfaces.
CAD software, such as a vague imitation of Autocad.
@item
-Software for displaying molecules.
-
-@item
Software for comparing DNA sequences, and finding matches and
alignments.
@end itemize
@@ -367,9 +343,9 @@ alignments.
@chapter Compilers for Other Batch Languages
Volunteers are needed to write parsers/front ends for languages such as
-Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, or whatever, to be used with the code
-generation phases of the GNU C compiler. (C++ and Objective C are done,
-Fortran is now in beta test, and Ada and Pascal are being worked on.
+Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, Cobol, or whatever, to be used with the code
+generation phases of the GNU C compiler. (C++, Objective C and Fortran
+are done; Ada, Pascal and Java are being worked on.
@c Fortran status is here so gnu@prep and the volunteer coordinators
@c don't have to answer the question -len