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(ps-print-prologue-1): Fix bug in postscript comment lines. (ps-nb-pages): Call ps-setup _before_ switching to the other buffer, because of buffer variables. Major rewrite. (ps-page-dimensions-database, ps-paper-type): Replace the following global variables: (ps-a4-page-height, ps-a4-page-width, ps-legal-page-height, ps-legal-page-width, ps-letter-page-height, ps-letter-page-width, ps-pages-alist, ps-page-dimensions): Variables deleted. (ps-page-height-i, ps-page-width-i): Variables deleted. (ps-print-prologue): Variable deleted. (ps-print-prologue-1, ps-print-prologue-2): New variables. Major rewrite of the postscript code to handle landscape mode, multiple columns and new font management. (ps-landscape-mode, ps-number-of-columns, ps-inter-column): New variables. Add landscape mode and multiple columns with interspacing. (ps-font-info-database, ps-font-family, ps-font-size, ps-header-font-family, ps-header-font-size, ps-header-title-font, ps-header-title-font-size): New variables. New font management interface. (ps-header-line-pad, ps-header-offset): New variables. (ps-header-font, ps-landscape-page-height): New internal variables. (ps-top-margin): Change its semantics. It is now really the top margin, not anymore twice the top margin. (/ReportAllFontInfo): New postscript function to get all the font families of the printer. (ps-setup): New function. (ps-line-lengths, ps-nb-pages-buffer, ps-nb-pages-region): New utility functions. (ps-page-dimensions-get-width, ps-page-dimensions-get-height): New macros. (/HeaderOffset): Fix bug with /PrintStartY. (/SetHeaderLines): Fix bug.

README for Edition 2.4 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.

* This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference
Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex,
which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of
texinfo.tex.  Also, it contains makeinfo.c.

* Report Lisp Manual bugs to [e-mail].  We
don't read these bug reports until it's time for a new edition.  To
report other Emacs bugs, use [e-mail].
To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.

* The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large.  It totals around
700 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two
megabytes.

* You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
using TeX.  

* You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation.
For info, send mail to [e-mail] or phone [phone].
Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our
GNU development work.

** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
Otherwise, here are detailed instructions:

** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this
manual is included in this distribution.

The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called
`elisp.texi'.  It contains @include commands to include all the
chapters that make up the manual.  In addition, `elisp.texi' has
the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the
@titlespec command.

To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following
commands in the shell:

% make index.texi
% make elisp.dvi

*** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
with `make-permuted-index'.  

** INFO: A copy of makeinfo.c that will format this manual for Info is
included in this distribution.  This program is written in C and can
be used separately from Emacs.  `makeinfo' produces much better error
messages than the old `texinfo-format-buffer'.  You can run `makeinfo'
it on the `elisp.texi' file.