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