doc/lispref/README

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   6 README for Edition 2.9 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
   7
   8 * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference
   9 Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex,
  10 which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of
  11 texinfo.tex.
  12
  13 * Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@gnu.org.  We don't read
  14 these bug reports until it's time for a new edition.  To report other
  15 Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.  To ask questions, use the
  16 newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.
  17
  18 * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large.  It totals around
  19 1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total over
  20 2.5 megabytes.
  21
  22 * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
  23 using TeX.
  24
  25 * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation.
  26 For info, send mail to gnu@gnu.org or phone 617-542-5942.  Buying a
  27 manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU
  28 development work.
  29
  30 ** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
  31 Otherwise, here are detailed instructions:
  32
  33 ** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this
  34 manual is included in this distribution.
  35
  36 The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called
  37 `elisp.texi'.  It contains @include commands to include all the
  38 chapters that make up the manual.  In addition, `elisp.texi' has
  39 the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the
  40 @titlespec command.
  41
  42 To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following
  43 commands in the shell:
  44
  45 % ./configure
  46 % make index.texi
  47 % make elisp.dvi
  48
  49 *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
  50 with `make-permuted-index'.
  51
  52 ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run
  53 `./configure' and `make info'.  To install the Info files, run
  54 `make install'.
  55
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