# HG changeset patch # User Glenn Morris # Date 1213583200 0 # Node ID bb2d47c31e26d384bcd4f6610e12cfd62475321f # Parent b82fca35baee58b7e6f0e9d8904d2f68e6ccf6ba Update. diff -r b82fca35baee -r bb2d47c31e26 doc/lispref/README --- a/doc/lispref/README Mon Jun 16 02:23:10 2008 +0000 +++ b/doc/lispref/README Mon Jun 16 02:26:40 2008 +0000 @@ -5,17 +5,14 @@ README for Edition 2.9 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. +* This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Emacs Lisp +Reference Manual. * Report bugs in the Lisp Manual or in Emacs using M-x report-emacs-bug. To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around -1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total over -2.5 megabytes. +1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total around 3.0 megabytes. * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy using TeX. @@ -24,31 +21,17 @@ Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU development work. See . -** 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 +* 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 +* This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make. -*** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment -with `make-permuted-index'. +** To create a DVI file with a sorted index, run `make elisp.dvi'. -** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run -`./configure' and `make info'. To install the Info files, run -`make install'. +** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run `make info'. This file is part of GNU Emacs.