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.
+* This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Emacs Lisp
+Reference Manual.
* Report bugs in the Lisp Manual or in Emacs using M-x report-emacs-bug.
To ask questions, use the newsgroup gnu.emacs.help.
* 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.
Buying a manual from the Free Software Foundation helps support our GNU
development work. See <http://shop.fsf.org/>.
-** 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
+* 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
+* This distribution contains a Makefile that you can use with GNU Make.
-*** To create a DVI file with a permuted index, you may experiment
-with `make-permuted-index'.
+** To create a DVI file with a sorted index, run `make elisp.dvi'.
-** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run
-`./configure' and `make info'. To install the Info files, run
-`make install'.
+** To make an Info file, you need to install Texinfo, then run `make info'.
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