Here are my property and distance settings currently.  Property

27 and 28 are weighted at 3. I am not sure why The disjoint property

had to be so heavily weighted.  

void Component::setProperties(BitMap * map)  // was BitMap

/*--------------------------------------------------------------

Primary Purpose: Set the property vector for this component

Arguments:  The BitMap to which this component belongs

Return Value:

Effects: Property 0-24

    The component is divided into a 5 by 5 grid.  A gray

    scale (0 - 255) for each section is determined.  The gray scale

    is 0 for all white, 255 for all black, but normally will be somewhere

    between the two.  The gray scales are represented in properties

    0-24. 

    Property 25 is the grayscale accross the top.

    Property 26 is the grayscale accross the bottom.

    Property 27 is the width/height ratio again scaled to (0-255)

    Actually the formula for property 27 is

        width/ height * 255  if height > width

        1- height/width * 255 if width > height

    This way near 0 is very tall and thin

             near 128 height near width

	     near 255 very wide

    Property 28 is  Indicator of a vertically disjoint character

     like i and j. 0 - not disjoint. 255 - disjoint

Distance Component::distance(Component * comp) 

/*--------------------------------------------------------------

Primary Purpose: Determines heuristic distance between two components

Arguments:  Another component to compare

Return Value: integer value which represents the distance between two 

   components. Distance = sum over i of

                       weight *square (this->fproperty[i] - comp->fproperty[i])

		       weight for i == 27, 28 is 3 weight is 1 for all other 

		       properties