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If you wish to learn about Scheme in more detail I recommend the book abelson85.
The Emacs Lisp documentation is reasonable as it is comprehensive and many of the underlying uses of Scheme in Festival were influenced by Emacs. Emacs Lisp however is not Scheme so there are some differences.
Other Scheme tutorials and resources available on the Web are