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1 | Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 |
| 2 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
| 3 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
| 4 | are permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. | |
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| de2f4698 | 7 | README for Edition 2.9 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. |
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| 9 | * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference | |
| 10 | Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex, | |
| 11 | which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of | |
| bdd40dd2 | 12 | texinfo.tex. |
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14 | * Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@gnu.org. We don't read |
| 15 | these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To report other | |
| 16 | Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. To ask questions, use the | |
| 17 | newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. | |
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| 19 | * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around | |
| de2f4698 | 20 | 1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total over |
| 0b2fb045 | 21 | 2.5 megabytes. |
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| 23 | * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy | |
| 177c0ea7 | 24 | using TeX. |
| 96099e29 | 25 | |
| 14423a05 | 26 | * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation. |
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27 | For info, send mail to gnu@gnu.org or phone 617-542-5942. Buying a |
| 28 | manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU | |
| 29 | development work. | |
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31 | ** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make. |
| 32 | Otherwise, here are detailed instructions: | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | ** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this | |
| 35 | manual is included in this distribution. | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called | |
| 38 | `elisp.texi'. It contains @include commands to include all the | |
| 39 | chapters that make up the manual. In addition, `elisp.texi' has | |
| 40 | the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the | |
| 41 | @titlespec command. | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following | |
| 44 | commands in the shell: | |
| 45 | ||
| ff1f8dd6 | 46 | % ./configure |
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47 | % make index.texi |
| 48 | % make elisp.dvi | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment | |
| 177c0ea7 | 51 | with `make-permuted-index'. |
| 96099e29 | 52 | |
| bdd40dd2 | 53 | ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run |
| df140a68 | 54 | `./configure' and `make info'. To install the Info files, run |
| ff1f8dd6 | 55 | `make install'. |