FYI,
As Stephen has sentenced me to some lispref mangling as part of my
pique penance, I'd like to solicit some comments on some possible
additional changes:
* Packaging currently occupies two (2) chapters:
Chapter 2: The Xemacs Packaging System
Chapter 3: An Overview of the XEmacs Packaging System
Shouldn't this be one chapter, with "An Overview of the XEmacs
Packaging System" being a section? Granted, there would currently be
only one section (with everything else being a subsection or
subsubsection of this), but it appears Stephen would add additional
sections in the future (or, we could just merge the top-level text of
the overview into the end of "The Xemacs Packaging System").
* Currently, the packaging info is at the beginning of the lispref
manual. Shouldn't this be placed near the end? The rest of the
manual starts out with the basics of Emacs-Lisp, and gets
progressively more complex. It seems that a more logical place for it
would be after the section on Mule (or some similar place).
* Should we also update the edition history, version, and copyright
notices? The latest edition history says:
XEmacs Lisp Reference Manual (for 21.0) v3.3, April 1998
The version is:
Version 3.3 (for XEmacs 21.0), April 1998
The copyright looks like:
Copyright @copyright{} 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1995 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Copyright @copyright{} 1995, 1996 Ben Wing.
@sp 2
Version 3.3 @*
Revised for XEmacs Versions 21.0,@*
April 1998.@*
I think we should bump up the version to "3.4" (or somesuch), change
"21.0" to "21.5" (21.4?) and change/add "2002" to the dates.
[ Copyright's problematic. Should we just assign a 2002 copyright to
Stephen, Adrian, or Ben? ;-) ]
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Darryl Okahata
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