-README for Edition 2.4 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
+README for Edition 2.9 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 bug-lisp-manual@prep.ai.mit.edu. We
-don't read these bug reports until it's time for a new edition. To
-report other Emacs bugs, use bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu.
-To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.
+* 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
-700 pages in smallbook format; the info files total almost two
-megabytes.
+1100 pages in smallbook format; the info files total over
+2.5 megabytes.
* You can format this manual either for Info or for printing hardcopy
-using TeX.
+using TeX.
* You can buy nicely printed copies from the Free Software Foundation.
-For info, send mail to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or phone 617-542-5942.
-Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our
-GNU development work.
+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:
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'.
+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
+`./configure' and `make info'. To install the Info files, run
+`make install'.