Omit edition numbers and dates in manuals
These seem to cause more confusion than they cure; e.g., https://shop.fsf.org/books/gnu-emacs-manual-18th-edition-v-261 currently advertises "18th edition" even as it points to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/emacs.pdf which says "Seventeenth Edition". It is simpler and less confusing to stick to one version number like "26.3". If we need a separate edition number for each printed manual for some reason (marketing?) we can put “@ifset printed-edition” around anything specific to the printed editions. (as opposed to online PDF copies). * doc/emacs/emacs.texi (EDITION): * doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (edition-number, update-date): * doc/lispref/elisp.texi (VERSION, DATE): Remove, and remove uses.
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@setfilename ../../info/emacs.info
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@settitle GNU Emacs Manual
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@include docstyle.texi
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@c The edition number appears in more than one place in this file
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@c I don't really know what it means...
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@c For example, it has said "Sixteenth" since sometime in the Emacs 22
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@c series, all through 23, and into 24. So it is not very useful IMO,
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@c and offers nothing that EMACSVER does not. I guess it relates
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@c mainly to the published book sold by the FSF. Hence no longer
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@c bother including it except iftex. Really, I think it should not be
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@c here at all (since anyone can make a pdf version), but should just
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@c be something added by the FSF during the publishing process.
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@c Also, the lispref uses a float (3.0), whereas this uses an ordinal,
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@c so the format is not even consistent.
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@set EDITION Seventeenth
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@include emacsver.texi
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@copying
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@iftex
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This is the @value{EDITION} edition of the @cite{GNU Emacs Manual},@*
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@end iftex
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@ifnottex
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This is the @cite{GNU Emacs Manual},
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@end ifnottex
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updated for Emacs version @value{EMACSVER}.
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Copyright @copyright{} 1985--1987, 1993--2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@sp 6
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@center @titlefont{GNU Emacs Manual}
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@sp 4
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@center @value{EDITION} Edition, Updated for Emacs Version @value{EMACSVER}.
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@center Updated for Emacs Version @value{EMACSVER}
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@sp 5
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@center Richard Stallman et al.
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@page
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\global\hbadness=6666 % don't worry about not-too-underfull boxes
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@end tex
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@c These refer to the printed book sold by the FSF.
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@set edition-number 3.10
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@set update-date 28 October 2009
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@c For next or subsequent edition:
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@c create function using with-output-to-temp-buffer
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@c create a major mode, with keymaps
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This is @cite{An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp}, for
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people who are not programmers.
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@sp 1
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@iftex
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Edition @value{edition-number}, @value{update-date}
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@end iftex
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@ifnottex
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Distributed with Emacs version @value{EMACSVER}.
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@end ifnottex
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@end ifset
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@end tex
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@c Version of the manual and of Emacs.
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@c (See comments for EDITION in emacs.texi)
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@set VERSION 3.1
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@include emacsver.texi
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@set DATE October 2014
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@c in general, keep the following line commented out, unless doing a
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@c copy of this manual that will be published. The manual should go
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@c @syncodeindex tp fn
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@copying
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@iftex
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This is edition @value{VERSION} of the @cite{GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual},@*
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@end iftex
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@ifnottex
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This is the @cite{GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}
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@end ifnottex
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This is the @cite{GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual},
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corresponding to Emacs version @value{EMACSVER}.
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Copyright @copyright{} 1990--1996, 1998--2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@subtitle @value{voltitle}
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@end ifset
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@subtitle For Emacs Version @value{EMACSVER}
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@subtitle Revision @value{VERSION}, @value{DATE}
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@author by Bil Lewis, Dan LaLiberte, Richard Stallman,
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@author the GNU Manual Group, et al.
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