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README for Edition 2.8 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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* This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference
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Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex,
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which handles forms that cannot be handled by the older versions of
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texinfo.tex.
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* Report Lisp Manual bugs to bug-lisp-manual@gnu.org. We don't read
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these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To report other
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Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. To ask questions, use the
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newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.
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* The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around
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980 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost
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2.5 megabytes.
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* You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
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using TeX.
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* You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation.
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For info, send mail to gnu@gnu.org or phone 617-542-5942. Buying a
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manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU
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development work.
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** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
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Otherwise, here are detailed instructions:
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** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this
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manual is included in this distribution.
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The master file for formatting this manual for Tex is called
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`elisp.texi'. It contains @include commands to include all the
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chapters that make up the manual. In addition, `elisp.texi' has
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the title page in a new format designed by Karl Berry, using the
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@titlespec command.
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To create a DVI file with a sorted index, execute the following
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commands in the shell:
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% ./configure
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% make index.texi
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% make elisp.dvi
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*** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
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with `make-permuted-index'.
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** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run
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`./configure' and `make info'. To install the Info files, run
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`make install'.
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