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| 95df8112 | 1 | Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 5b87ad55 | 2 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
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| 28528402 | 5 | README for Edition 3.0 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. |
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7 | * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Emacs Lisp |
| 8 | Reference Manual. | |
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10 | * Report bugs in the Lisp Manual or in Emacs using M-x report-emacs-bug. |
| 11 | To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. | |
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| 13 | * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around | |
| 468a63b4 | 14 | 1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total around 3.0 megabytes. |
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| 16 | * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy | |
| 177c0ea7 | 17 | using TeX. |
| 96099e29 | 18 | |
| 14423a05 | 19 | * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation. |
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20 | Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU |
| 21 | development work. See <http://shop.fsf.org/>. | |
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| 468a63b4 | 23 | * The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called |
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24 | `elisp.texi'. It contains @include commands to include all the |
| 25 | chapters that make up the manual. In addition, `elisp.texi' has | |
| 26 | the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the | |
| 27 | @titlespec command. | |
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| 468a63b4 | 29 | * This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make. |
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| 468a63b4 | 31 | ** To create a DVI file with a sorted index, run `make elisp.dvi'. |
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| 468a63b4 | 33 | ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run `make info'. |
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| 35 | \f | |
| 36 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
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| 352c8b4a | 38 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| 5b87ad55 | 39 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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40 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
| 41 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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| 43 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 44 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 45 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 46 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 352c8b4a | 49 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |