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author | Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> |
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38581 | 1 README for Edition 2.6 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 | |
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6 texinfo.tex. |
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8 * Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@gnu.org. We don't read |
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9 these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To report other |
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10 Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. To ask questions, use the |
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11 newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. |
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13 * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around | |
38581 | 14 980 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost |
15 2.5 megabytes. | |
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17 * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy | |
18 using TeX. | |
19 | |
6450 | 20 * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation. |
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21 For info, send mail to gnu@gnu.org or phone 617-542-5942. Buying a |
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22 manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU |
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23 development work. |
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4184 | 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 | |
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40 % ./configure |
4184 | 41 % make index.texi |
42 % make elisp.dvi | |
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44 *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment | |
45 with `make-permuted-index'. | |
46 | |
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47 ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run |
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48 `./configure' and `make elisp'. To install the Info files, run |
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49 `make install'. |