************************************************************************ * * * This method collection is the copyright of Anthony P. Smith. * * * * You are welcome to make copies of the material for your own use. * * * * You may distribute copies to others provided that you do not do so * * for profit and provided that you include this copyright statement. * * * * If you modify the material before distributing it, you must * * include a clear notice that the material has been modified. * * * ************************************************************************ Anthony P. Smith ------------ COLLECTION OF NON-PALINDROMIC PLAIN MINOR METHODS --------- July 2020 --------- CONTENTS Introduction INTRO.TXT Methods with maximum two consecutive blows NPPL62.TXT Methods with maximum three consecutive blows NPPL63.TXT Methods with maximum four consecutive blows NPPL64.TXT Alphabetical Index of Methods NPPL6IND.TXT INTRODUCTION This collection contains all non-palindromic plain Minor methods with five leads in the plain course and no bell making more than four consecutive blows in the same position. Unnamed methods are classified as Bob unless the classification Place is shown in parentheses. Each method entry consists of an index number, the name, place notation, lead head produced and references. The index number is only significant within this edition of this collection. For methods with Plain Bob lead heads, the lead head produced is given by a code from the following table. Codes a - f are for seconds place lead ends and codes g - m for sixths place lead ends. For methods with non-Plain Bob lead heads the actual lead head is given. TABLE OF PLAIN BOB LEAD HEAD CODES ---------------- | Minor | |--------------| | a 135264 g | | b 156342 h | | e 164523 l | | f 142635 m | ---------------- The palindromic plain Minor methods with five leads in the plain course appeared in Plain Minor Methods, 1st edition, 1988, revised edition, 1991, 2nd edition, 1999, and 3rd edition, 2008, numbered in place notation order from 1 to 1778. This numbering system has been extended to cover non-palindromic methods in a column headed PMM. Non-palindromic methods with no bell making more than two consecutive blows in the same position are numbered in place notation order from 1779 to 4012, methods with no bell making more than three consecutive blows in the same position are numbered in place notation order from 4013 to 196028 and methods with no more than four consecutive blows in the same position are numbered in place notation order from 196029 to 1413978. Collection created and maintained by Anthony P. Smith Email smith_a_p@btinternet.com