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> > In a different vein, I offer to translate the (french) documentation
> > of sym, if there is no translation yet and if there is somebody
> > interested...
> 
> Yes!  Interested!

I just discovered english documentation on
http://www.mathe2.uni-bayreuth.de/axel/htmlpapers/valibouze.html
by the author Annick Valibouze himself...
(more of the same author can be found on
http://www.medicis.polytechnique.fr/medicis/projetGalois/publicationsProjet.html
)

It is nearly complete, only the documentation corresponding to the
following sections in docsym.dvi is missing:
3.1 arite, card_orbit, multinomial, card_stab, permut
3.2 ele2polynome, polynome2ele
3.8 resolvante*

on the other hand,

somrac and prodrac 

are not documented in the french version...

Except possibly 3.8 these are trivial items.
I contacted Annick Valibouze, asking if he could find the tex source...

Martin