* Lisp History:: Emacs Lisp is descended from Maclisp.
* Conventions:: How the manual is formatted.
* Version Info:: Which Emacs version is running?
-* Acknowledgements:: The authors, editors, and sponsors of this manual.
+* Acknowledgments:: The authors, editors, and sponsors of this manual.
Conventions
* Motion and Syntax:: Moving over characters with certain syntaxes.
* Parsing Expressions:: Parsing balanced expressions
using the syntax table.
-* Standard Syntax Tables:: Syntax tables used by various major modes.
* Syntax Table Internals:: How syntax table information is stored.
* Categories:: Another way of classifying character syntax.