1Basic Installation for An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp version 2 2================== 3 4 # To see the table of contents of the emacs-lisp-intro-2.04.tar.gz 5 # file, execute the following at your shell prompt: 6 7 tar -tzvf emacs-lisp-intro-2.04.tar.gz 8 9 # To uncompress and untar the file, execute the following: 10 11 tar -xzvf emacs-lisp-intro-2.04.tar.gz 12 13 # The file will untar into a subdirectory called emacs-lisp-intro-2.04 14 # That directory will contain the Texinfo source for the book, the 15 # Info files and various other files. 16 17 cd emacs-lisp-intro-2.04 18 19 # To create a DVI file that can be printed directly or converted 20 # to PostScript or PDF and then printed, execute the following: 21 22 ./configure 23 make dvi 24 25 # To create an HTML file, execute the following 26 # (presumably you have already executed the `./configure' command 27 # before running `make dvi'; if not execute `./configure' now); 28 # this will place HTML files into a emacs-lisp-intro/ subdirectory: 29 30 makeinfo --html --verbose emacs-lisp-intro.texi 31 32 # To create a single, large HTML file in the current directory, 33 # use the --no-split option, like this: 34 35 makeinfo --html --no-split --verbose emacs-lisp-intro.texi 36 37 # At the time of writing, `makeinfo' version 4.0b creates HTML 38 # files with %20 in addresses instead of a space. Some 39 # browsers have difficulty following such references. In 40 # GNU Emacs, you can replace the occurrences of %20 with a 41 # command such as 42 # (replace-string "%20" " ") 43 44 # To create a single, large Info file in the current directory 45 # instead of the usual 16 smaller Info files, and also, to avoid 46 # indenting paragraphs, execute: 47 48 makeinfo --no-split --paragraph-indent=0 --verbose emacs-lisp-intro.texi 49 50 # To create a single, large Plain text file in the current 51 # directory, execute: 52 53 makeinfo --fill-column=70 --no-split --paragraph-indent=0 \ 54 --verbose --no-headers --output=emacs-lisp-intro.txt emacs-lisp-intro.texi 55 56### 57