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Small mistake in emacs manual ?

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From: Jon Krom <jon <at> krom.eu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44962: Small mistake in emacs manual ?
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 20:04:28 +0100

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 <at> 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.
> 

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