Added entries for melm/marc21

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+Added 'melm' directive to absyn format to simplify config files
+for MARC-style databases. See tab/marc21.abs for an example.
+
+Added bath-compliant definition file marc21.abs for use with MARC databases.
+
 Added autoconf utility idzebra.m4 which defines --with-idzebra .
 
 Added mechanism to ignore leading articles when doing full-field indexing,