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1 README for Edition 2.9 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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3 * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference
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4 Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex,
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5 which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of
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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
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14 1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total over
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17 * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
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18 using TeX.
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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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25 ** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
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26 Otherwise, here are detailed instructions:
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28 ** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this
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29 manual is included in this distribution.
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31 The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called
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32 `elisp.texi'. It contains @include commands to include all the
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33 chapters that make up the manual. In addition, `elisp.texi' has
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34 the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the
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35 @titlespec command.
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37 To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following
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38 commands in the shell:
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40 % ./configure
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41 % make index.texi
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42 % make elisp.dvi
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44 *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
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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 info'. To install the Info files, run
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49 `make install'.
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