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(set-face-attribute): Update doc string. (face-attribute-name-alist): Add :inherit. (face-valid-attribute-values): Handle :inherit. (face-read-string): Rephrase prompt to be less confusing. Assume that DEFAULT is a string, since we must return a string. (face-read-integer): Use `format' to turn DEFAULT into an acceptable default for face-read-string. Match NEW-VALUE against the string "unspecified", not the symbol `unspecified', since that's what face-read-string returns. (read-face-attribute): Lookup a name for old-value in valid, and use it as a default if we find one. Treat all values from face-read-string as strings. If the default is used, don't do any more processing on the value, just use the old value directly. (read-face-and-attribute, modify-face): Tweak prompt. (read-face-name): Don't assume prompt ends with a space.

README for Edition 2.5 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 [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
900 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:

% ./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 elisp'.  To install the Info files, run
`make install'.