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Various small changes in addition to the following.
(Converting Representations): Clarify behavior of
`string-make-multibyte' and `string-to-multibyte' for unibyte all
ASCII arguments.
(Character Sets): Document the variable `charset-list' and adapt the
definition of the function `charset-list' accordingly.
(Translation of Characters): Clarify use of generic characters in
`make-translation-table'. Clarify and correct the description of the
use of translation tables in encoding and decoding.
(User-Chosen Coding Systems): Correct and clarify the description of
`select-safe-coding-system'.
(Default Coding Systems): Clarify description of `file-coding-system-alist'.
author | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> |
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date | Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:34:38 +0000 |
parents | 23a1cea22d13 |
children | f0087630a3a5 |
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README for Edition 2.8 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. * Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@gnu.org. We don't read these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To report other Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around 980 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost 2.5 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 gnu@gnu.org or phone 617-542-5942. 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: % ./configure % make index.texi % make elisp.dvi *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment with `make-permuted-index'. ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run `./configure' and `make info'. To install the Info files, run `make install'.