Switch from octal escapes to hex escapes for other nonprintable characters.

this is slightly easier to read than the list environment that had been
used.

breaks things.

is encoded in u-LAW format.  Based on suggestion from Anthony Baxter
<anthony_baxter@users.sourceforge.net>.

This closes bug #122273.

<mal@lemburg.com>.

Lots of markup reformatting to make it easier for me to read & maintain.

SourceForge doesn't choke on this batch :-)

I'm not entirely sure this is 100% correct. The patch changes an
\index{persistency} to \index{presistence}, and I don't know what \index{}
does. But it seems to do so persi--er, consistently, so I hope it isn't a
problem.

<danielb@digitalfocus.com>.

Added credit to Martin von Loewis for creating the module and
documentation.

Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.

Fix up a few synopses.

Convert one bulleted list to a {tableii} environment; the other should
probably be converted, but I haven't decided to what.

bogus code.

extensions and embedding programs.

checkin of myformat.sty.

Change "\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(...)}" to "\setindexsubitem{(...)}"
everywhere.

Some other minor nits that I happened to come across.

ways to do it previously (not counting module names).

Include "()" when naming functions in the text.

Fixed reference to the built-in str() function.

Format constant names using \code{}.