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| author | Glenn Morris | 2008-06-16 02:26:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris | 2008-06-16 02:26:40 +0000 |
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| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | README for Edition 2.9 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. | 6 | README for Edition 2.9 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. |
| 7 | 7 | ||
| 8 | * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference | 8 | * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Emacs Lisp |
| 9 | Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex, | 9 | Reference Manual. |
| 10 | which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of | ||
| 11 | texinfo.tex. | ||
| 12 | 10 | ||
| 13 | * Report bugs in the Lisp Manual or in Emacs using M-x report-emacs-bug. | 11 | * Report bugs in the Lisp Manual or in Emacs using M-x report-emacs-bug. |
| 14 | To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. | 12 | To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. |
| 15 | 13 | ||
| 16 | * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around | 14 | * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around |
| 17 | 1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total over | 15 | 1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total around 3.0 megabytes. |
| 18 | 2.5 megabytes. | ||
| 19 | 16 | ||
| 20 | * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy | 17 | * You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy |
| 21 | using TeX. | 18 | using TeX. |
| @@ -24,31 +21,17 @@ using TeX. | |||
| 24 | Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU | 21 | Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU |
| 25 | development work. See <http://shop.fsf.org/>. | 22 | development work. See <http://shop.fsf.org/>. |
| 26 | 23 | ||
| 27 | ** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make. | 24 | * The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called |
| 28 | Otherwise, here are detailed instructions: | ||
| 29 | |||
| 30 | ** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this | ||
| 31 | manual is included in this distribution. | ||
| 32 | |||
| 33 | The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called | ||
| 34 | `elisp.texi'. It contains @include commands to include all the | 25 | `elisp.texi'. It contains @include commands to include all the |
| 35 | chapters that make up the manual. In addition, `elisp.texi' has | 26 | chapters that make up the manual. In addition, `elisp.texi' has |
| 36 | the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the | 27 | the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the |
| 37 | @titlespec command. | 28 | @titlespec command. |
| 38 | 29 | ||
| 39 | To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following | 30 | * This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make. |
| 40 | commands in the shell: | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | % ./configure | ||
| 43 | % make index.texi | ||
| 44 | % make elisp.dvi | ||
| 45 | 31 | ||
| 46 | *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment | 32 | ** To create a DVI file with a sorted index, run `make elisp.dvi'. |
| 47 | with `make-permuted-index'. | ||
| 48 | 33 | ||
| 49 | ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run | 34 | ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run `make info'. |
| 50 | `./configure' and `make info'. To install the Info files, run | ||
| 51 | `make install'. | ||
| 52 | 35 | ||
| 53 | 36 | ||
| 54 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | 37 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. |