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| 94a6c818 | 1 | README for Edition 2.4 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 | |
| 6 | texinfo.tex. Also, it contains makeinfo.c. | |
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8 | * Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@prep.ai.mit.edu. We |
| 9 | don't read these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To | |
| 10 | report other Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu. | |
| 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 | |
| 14 | 700 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two | |
| 15 | megabytes. | |
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| 17 | * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy | |
| 18 | using TeX. | |
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| 14423a05 | 20 | * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation. |
| 589e5728 | 21 | For info, send mail to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or phone 617-542-5942. |
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22 | Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our |
| 23 | GNU 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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| 46 | ** INFO: A copy of makeinfo.c that will format this manual for Info is | |
| 47 | included in this distribution. This program is written in C and can | |
| 48 | be used separately from Emacs. `makeinfo' produces much better error | |
| 49 | messages than the old `texinfo-format-buffer'. You can run `makeinfo' | |
| 50 | it on the `elisp.texi' file. |