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Clarify documentation of precision in format specs

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* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Formatting Strings): Be less
definitive wrt what precision means in format specs other than
floating-point, %s and %S.  (Bug#24314)
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Eli Zaretskii 2016-08-26 22:13:34 +03:00
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@ -1052,8 +1052,9 @@ precision specifies how many decimal places to show; if zero, the
decimal-point itself is also omitted. For @samp{%s} and @samp{%S}, decimal-point itself is also omitted. For @samp{%s} and @samp{%S},
the precision truncates the string to the given width, so @samp{%.3s} the precision truncates the string to the given width, so @samp{%.3s}
shows only the first three characters of the representation for shows only the first three characters of the representation for
@var{object}. Precision has no effect for other specification @var{object}. For other specification characters, the effect of
characters. precision is what the local library functions of the @code{printf}
family produce.
@node Case Conversion @node Case Conversion
@section Case Conversion in Lisp @section Case Conversion in Lisp