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-* TRACY, A Tool for Accelerator Design and Analysis EPAC'88 *
+#  TRACY, A Tool for Accelerator Design and Analysis
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 Self-Consistent Symplectic Integrator for charged particle beam dynamics.
 
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 Proceedings of 1988 European Particle Accelerator Conference, pp. 803-805, Rome,
 Italy, 1988
 
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-April 11th, 2011
-LNLS
-Laurent S. Nadolski
 
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-Numerical recipes
-1/ xutils-dev for makedepend
-2/ makedepend in the src file of nrecipes directory
+## Numerical recipes
+1. xutils-dev for makedepend
+2. makedepend in the src file of nrecipes directory
 
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-Installation of Tracy3 
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+## Installation of Tracy3
 
 What is necessary:
-1/ gcc
-2/ g++
-3/ autoconf
-4/ libtool
-5/ libgls0-dev lib + development library with header such as gls_sf.h
+1. gcc
+2. g++
+3. autoconf
+4. libtool
+5. libgls0-dev lib + development library with header such as gls_sf.h
 
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 Modify .bashrc to get environment variables 
 cf set_var.sh or set_var4LNLS.sh
 Set the path to fit your computer architecture
 
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-For compilation of TracyIII
+**For compilation of TracyIII**
 In root directory of TracyIII, run the command:
 ./make_for_gcc.sh opt 
 
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 Example to test the code: 
 executable is soltracy located in  $TRACY_LIB/tools 
 
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-TRACY HISTORY
+# TRACY HISTORY
 
 The underlying beam dynamics model is open source; courtesy Michael Böge.
 (A CORBA Based Distributed Client/Server Model for Beam Dynamics Applications at the SLS ICALEPS'99)
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 (Having validated the model by beam studies for the ALS commissioning (& also provided a realistic estimate of the Touschek lifetime; for a medium energy ring): Modeling of Beam Dynamics and Comparison with Measurements for the Advanced Light Source (ALS) EPAC'94)
 
 After which M. Böge machine translated my beam dynamics library from Pascal to C (with GNU p2c) & used it as an on-line model server to guide the commissioning (i.e., including e.g. modeling of girder correlations, etc. & the related correction algorithms that I provided to model the real lattice for the SLS conceptual design).
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