Improve documentation of glyphless-char-display

* doc/lispref/display.texi (Glyphless Chars): Improve
documentation of glyphless character display.
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Eli Zaretskii 2015-05-20 18:14:21 +03:00
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@ -6614,7 +6614,8 @@ Display a box containing the Unicode codepoint of the character, in
hexadecimal notation.
@item an @acronym{ASCII} string
Display a box containing that string.
Display a box containing that string. The string should contain at
most 6 @acronym{ASCII} characters.
@item a cons cell @code{(@var{graphical} . @var{text})}
Display with @var{graphical} on graphical displays, and with
@ -6625,7 +6626,8 @@ must be one of the display methods described above.
@noindent
The @code{thin-space}, @code{empty-box}, @code{hex-code}, and
@acronym{ASCII} string display methods are drawn with the
@code{glyphless-char} face.
@code{glyphless-char} face. On text terminals, a box is emulated by
square brackets, @samp{[]}.
The char-table has one extra slot, which determines how to display any
character that cannot be displayed with any available font, or cannot