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-***TRACY, A Tool for Accelerator Design and Analysis EPAC'88***
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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
+## Numerical recipes
 1/ xutils-dev for makedepend
 2/ makedepend in the src file of nrecipes directory
 
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-**Installation of Tracy3 **
+## Installation of Tracy3
 
 What is necessary:
 1/ gcc
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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)