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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-11-01 17:24:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-11-01 17:24:47 -0700 |
| commit | 2f42832895942fdeaa0c500511aa19860fa806cd (patch) | |
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Omit edition numbers and dates in manuals
These seem to cause more confusion than they cure; e.g.,
https://shop.fsf.org/books/gnu-emacs-manual-18th-edition-v-261
currently advertises "18th edition" even as it points to
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/pdf/emacs.pdf
which says "Seventeenth Edition". It is simpler and less
confusing to stick to one version number like "26.3". If we
need a separate edition number for each printed manual for
some reason (marketing?) we can put “@ifset printed-edition”
around anything specific to the printed editions.
(as opposed to online PDF copies).
* doc/emacs/emacs.texi (EDITION):
* doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (edition-number, update-date):
* doc/lispref/elisp.texi (VERSION, DATE):
Remove, and remove uses.
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi index a7967ecaee5..678ccb9ba51 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi @@ -3,28 +3,10 @@ @setfilename ../../info/emacs.info @settitle GNU Emacs Manual @include docstyle.texi - -@c The edition number appears in more than one place in this file -@c I don't really know what it means... -@c For example, it has said "Sixteenth" since sometime in the Emacs 22 -@c series, all through 23, and into 24. So it is not very useful IMO, -@c and offers nothing that EMACSVER does not. I guess it relates -@c mainly to the published book sold by the FSF. Hence no longer -@c bother including it except iftex. Really, I think it should not be -@c here at all (since anyone can make a pdf version), but should just -@c be something added by the FSF during the publishing process. -@c Also, the lispref uses a float (3.0), whereas this uses an ordinal, -@c so the format is not even consistent. -@set EDITION Seventeenth @include emacsver.texi @copying -@iftex -This is the @value{EDITION} edition of the @cite{GNU Emacs Manual},@* -@end iftex -@ifnottex This is the @cite{GNU Emacs Manual}, -@end ifnottex updated for Emacs version @value{EMACSVER}. Copyright @copyright{} 1985--1987, 1993--2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -82,7 +64,7 @@ developing GNU and promoting software freedom.'' @sp 6 @center @titlefont{GNU Emacs Manual} @sp 4 -@center @value{EDITION} Edition, Updated for Emacs Version @value{EMACSVER}. +@center Updated for Emacs Version @value{EMACSVER} @sp 5 @center Richard Stallman et al. @page |