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| bdd40dd2 | 1 | README for Edition 2.5 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. |
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| 3 | * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference | |
| 4 | Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex, | |
| 5 | which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of | |
| bdd40dd2 | 6 | texinfo.tex. |
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8 | * Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@gnu.org. We don't read |
| 9 | these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To report other | |
| 10 | Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. To ask questions, use the | |
| 11 | newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. | |
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| 13 | * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around | |
| a44f8b41 | 14 | 900 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two |
| 14423a05 | 15 | megabytes. |
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| 17 | * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy | |
| 18 | using TeX. | |
| 19 | ||
| 14423a05 | 20 | * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation. |
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21 | For info, send mail to gnu@gnu.org or phone 617-542-5942. Buying a |
| 22 | manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU | |
| 23 | development work. | |
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25 | ** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make. |
| 26 | Otherwise, here are detailed instructions: | |
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| 28 | ** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this | |
| 29 | manual is included in this distribution. | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called | |
| 32 | `elisp.texi'. It contains @include commands to include all the | |
| 33 | chapters that make up the manual. In addition, `elisp.texi' has | |
| 34 | the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the | |
| 35 | @titlespec command. | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following | |
| 38 | commands in the shell: | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | % make index.texi | |
| 41 | % make elisp.dvi | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment | |
| 44 | with `make-permuted-index'. | |
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| bdd40dd2 | 46 | ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run |
| a44f8b41 | 47 | `make elisp'. To install the Info files, run `make install'. |