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| author | Richard M. Stallman | 1998-04-23 22:07:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman | 1998-04-23 22:07:20 +0000 |
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| 1 | README for Edition 2.4 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. | 1 | README for Edition 2.5 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference | 3 | * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference |
| 4 | Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex, | 4 | Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex, |
| 5 | which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of | 5 | which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of |
| 6 | texinfo.tex. Also, it contains makeinfo.c. | 6 | texinfo.tex. |
| 7 | 7 | ||
| 8 | * Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@prep.ai.mit.edu. We | 8 | * Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@gnu.org. We don't read |
| 9 | don't read these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To | 9 | these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To report other |
| 10 | report other Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu. | 10 | Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. To ask questions, use the |
| 11 | To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. | 11 | newsgroup gnu.emacs.help. |
| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around | 13 | * The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around |
| 14 | 700 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two | 14 | 700 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two |
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| 18 | using TeX. | 18 | using TeX. |
| 19 | 19 | ||
| 20 | * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation. | 20 | * You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation. |
| 21 | For info, send mail to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or phone 617-542-5942. | 21 | For info, send mail to gnu@gnu.org or phone 617-542-5942. Buying a |
| 22 | Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our | 22 | manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU |
| 23 | GNU development work. | 23 | development work. |
| 24 | 24 | ||
| 25 | ** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make. | 25 | ** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make. |
| 26 | Otherwise, here are detailed instructions: | 26 | Otherwise, here are detailed instructions: |
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| 43 | *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment | 43 | *** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment |
| 44 | with `make-permuted-index'. | 44 | with `make-permuted-index'. |
| 45 | 45 | ||
| 46 | ** INFO: A copy of makeinfo.c that will format this manual for Info is | 46 | ** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run |
| 47 | included in this distribution. This program is written in C and can | 47 | `make elisp'. |
| 48 | be used separately from Emacs. `makeinfo' produces much better error | ||
| 49 | messages than the old `texinfo-format-buffer'. You can run `makeinfo' | ||
| 50 | it on the `elisp.texi' file. | ||