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1 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
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2 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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6 README for Edition 3.0 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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8 * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Emacs Lisp
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9 Reference Manual.
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11 * Report bugs in the Lisp Manual or in Emacs using M-x report-emacs-bug.
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12 To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.
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14 * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around
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15 1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total around 3.0 megabytes.
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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 Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU
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22 development work. See <http://shop.fsf.org/>.
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24 * The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called
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25 `elisp.texi'. It contains @include commands to include all the
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26 chapters that make up the manual. In addition, `elisp.texi' has
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27 the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the
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28 @titlespec command.
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30 * This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
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32 ** To create a DVI file with a sorted index, run `make elisp.dvi'.
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34 ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run `make info'.
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37 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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39 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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40 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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41 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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42 (at your option) any later version.
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44 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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45 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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46 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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47 GNU General Public License for more details.
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49 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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50 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.