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- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -*- outline -*-
See the end of the file for license conditions.
-README for Edition 2.9 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
+README for 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.
+* This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Emacs Lisp
+Reference Manual.
-* 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.
+* Report bugs in the Lisp Manual (or in Emacs) using M-x report-emacs-bug.
+To ask questions, use the help-gnu-emacs mailing list.
* The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is quite large. It totals around
-1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total over
-2.5 megabytes.
+1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total around 3.0 megabytes.
-* You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
-using TeX.
+* You can format this manual for Info, for printing hardcopy using TeX,
+or for HTML.
* 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.
+Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU
+development work. See <http://shop.fsf.org/>.
+(At time of writing, this manual is out of print.)
-** This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
-Otherwise, here are detailed instructions:
+* 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.
-** HARDCOPY: A copy of the version of `texinfo.tex' that formats this
-manual is included in this distribution.
+* This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
-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 make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run `make info'.
-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'.
+** Use `make elisp.pdf' or `make elisp.html' to create PDF or HTML versions.
\f
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