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From: Jon Krom <jon@krom.eu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 44962@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44962: Small mistake in emacs manual ?
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:04:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <757d2e2e-cebe-de45-ddbb-16731ba70ed9@krom.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831rgak768.fsf@gnu.org>

OK. Thanks for your feedback.

So, your explanation is clearer than the original.

One small additional comment. You write:

 > [...] so it makes no sense to use
 > it when your printer supports colors.

"No sense"?  In fact, I quite often print my documents in 
black-and-white only on  my color-printer.

Best regards,
Jon


On 30/11/2020 19.53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Jon Krom <jon@krom.eu>
>> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:52:06 +0100
>>
>> On this web-page
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/PostScript-Variables.html
>>
>> appears the sentence:
>>
>> "Alternatively, you can set ps-print-color-p to black-white to print
>> colors on black/white printers."
>>
>> Shouldn't this be:
>>
>> "Alternatively, you can set ps-print-color-p to black-white to print
>> black/white on color printers."
> 
> No, I don't think so.  This setting is supposed to produce a better
> looking printout on black/white printers, so it makes no sense to use
> it when your printer supports colors.
> 





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-30 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30 12:52 bug#44962: Small mistake in emacs manual ? Jon Krom
2020-11-30 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 18:56   ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 10:09     ` Jon Krom
2020-11-30 19:04   ` Jon Krom [this message]
2020-11-30 19:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-30 19:43       ` Jon Krom
2020-12-05 10:20         ` Eli Zaretskii

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