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authorRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>1998-04-23 22:07:20 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>1998-04-23 22:07:20 +0000
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-README for Edition 2.4 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
+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. Also, it contains makeinfo.c.
+texinfo.tex.
-* Report Lisp Manual bugs to [email protected]. We
-don't read these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To
-report other Emacs bugs, use [email protected].
-To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.
+* Report Lisp Manual bugs to [email protected]. We don't read
+these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To report other
+Emacs bugs, use [email protected]. To ask questions, use the
+newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.
* The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around
700 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ megabytes.
using TeX.
* You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation.
-For info, send mail to [email protected] or phone 617-542-5942.
-Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our
-GNU development work.
+For info, send mail to [email protected] or phone 617-542-5942. 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:
@@ -43,8 +43,5 @@ commands in the shell:
*** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
with `make-permuted-index'.
-** INFO: A copy of makeinfo.c that will format this manual for Info is
-included in this distribution. This program is written in C and can
-be used separately from Emacs. `makeinfo' produces much better error
-messages than the old `texinfo-format-buffer'. You can run `makeinfo'
-it on the `elisp.texi' file.
+** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run
+`make elisp'.