lispref/README

   1 README for Edition 2.8 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
   2
   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.
   7
   8 * Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@gnu.org.  We don't read
   9 these bug reports until it's time for a new edition.  To report other
  10 Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.  To ask questions, use the
  11 newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.
  12
  13 * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large.  It totals around
  14 980 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost
  15 2.5 megabytes.
  16
  17 * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
  18 using TeX.
  19
  20 * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation.
  21 For info, send mail to gnu@gnu.org or phone 617-542-5942.  Buying a
  22 manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU
  23 development work.
  24
  25 ** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
  26 Otherwise, here are detailed instructions:
  27
  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 % ./configure
  41 % make index.texi
  42 % make elisp.dvi
  43
  44 *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
  45 with `make-permuted-index'.
  46
  47 ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run
  48 `./configure' and `make info'.  To install the Info files, run
  49 `make install'.