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bug#14740: Strange manual on website


From: Arni Magnusson
Subject: bug#14740: Strange manual on website
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:58:12 +0000 (GMT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.03 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14)

The GNU Emacs Manual website,

  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html

has strange copies of the manual. That's where I download the official PDF manual.

I had noticed that the Emacs Manual 24.3 had unusually much material copied verbatim from the Lisp Reference Manual 24.3. For example, information about functions intended for Lisp programmers (not Emacs user commands). The Emacs Manual had also grown very abruptly from ca. 600 pages for many versions, to 894 pages.

To satisfy my curiosity, I downloaded the Texinfo source (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/texi/emacs.texi.tar.gz) and, sure enough, it compiles to 602 pages, with practically no overlap with the Lisp Reference Manual.

I think the solution is to recompile the Texinfo source and upload the correct manuals (PS, PDF, etc.) to the GNU Emacs Manual website.

Arni





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