Wrote about rule definition

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@@ -1761,19 +1761,22 @@ This is the assembly of the ~#:larcs.manipulate~ package.  It includes, in corre
 
 One of the less important parts of this system is the format converter, which converts between the internal symbolic form and a format that is capable of being typeset using TeX.  This is done using a variant of the common rewrite system, but instead of going between variants of the symbolic format, it converts from a symbolic format to string-based format.
 
-** WORKING Rule Management [0/3]
+** WORKING Rule Management [1/3]
 :PROPERTIES:
 :CREATED:  <2016-06-14 Tue 17:17>
 :END:
 
 To accomplish the task of conversion from symbolic form to typeset form, rules are necessary.  It is done using three main things, rule definition, rule retrieval and rule storage.
 
-*** TODO Define Rules
+*** DONE Define Rules
+CLOSED: [2016-06-24 Fri 22:28]
 :PROPERTIES:
 :CREATED:  <2016-06-14 Tue 17:18>
 :ID:       ec6fdb0d-546e-41fc-a7b7-5fbbfe4b7931
 :END:
 
+Rule definitions are built using the ~define-converter~ macro, which takes an expression type, a lambda list and a body.  It creates a function using the body and the given arguments list, and if it hasn't been pushed onto the storage system, the converter function is pushed into storage.
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 #+Caption: Rule Definition
 #+Name: stf-define-rule
 #+BEGIN_SRC lisp