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| 57ebf0be | 1 | Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 |
| c2e309f2 | 2 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 5b87ad55 | 3 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
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| de2f4698 | 6 | README for Edition 2.9 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. |
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| 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 | |
| bdd40dd2 | 11 | texinfo.tex. |
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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. | |
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| 18 | * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around | |
| de2f4698 | 19 | 1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total over |
| 0b2fb045 | 20 | 2.5 megabytes. |
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| 22 | * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy | |
| 177c0ea7 | 23 | using TeX. |
| 96099e29 | 24 | |
| 14423a05 | 25 | * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation. |
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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. | |
| 14423a05 | 29 | |
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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 | ||
| ff1f8dd6 | 45 | % ./configure |
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46 | % make index.texi |
| 47 | % make elisp.dvi | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment | |
| 177c0ea7 | 50 | with `make-permuted-index'. |
| 96099e29 | 51 | |
| bdd40dd2 | 52 | ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run |
| df140a68 | 53 | `./configure' and `make info'. To install the Info files, run |
| ff1f8dd6 | 54 | `make install'. |
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| 56 | \f | |
| 57 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
| 58 | ||
| 352c8b4a | 59 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| 5b87ad55 | 60 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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61 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
| 62 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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63 | |
| 64 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 65 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 66 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 67 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 352c8b4a | 70 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |