I found something farily obvious that will help with a lot of these kinds of questions; methods like "scm_i_makinum" were accessed via macros, so the macro (SCM_MAKINUM) is what I had to search for in the old manuals.
Am I safe to use "scm_from_int" in its place and other general SCM numeric functions instead of the immediate number ones? These seem to make up a large number of the deprecated functions in use by this library. Mark