Docstrings of categories improved.

diff --git a/lisp/international/characters.el b/lisp/international/characters.el
index 159bac024666e4dddb4580f2a2226060fd80994a..36e8383debf989336551d91280d0066fddb47131 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/international/characters.el
+++ b/lisp/international/characters.el
@@ -35,62 +35,84 @@
 
 ;; For each character set.
 
-(define-category ?a "ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])")
+(define-category ?a "ASCII
+ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])")
 (define-category ?l "Latin")
 (define-category ?t "Thai")
 (define-category ?g "Greek")
 (define-category ?b "Arabic")
 (define-category ?w "Hebrew")
 (define-category ?y "Cyrillic")
-(define-category ?k "Japanese katakana")
-(define-category ?r "Japanese roman")
+(define-category ?k "Katakana
+Japanese katakana")
+(define-category ?r "Roman
+Japanese roman")
 (define-category ?c "Chinese")
 (define-category ?j "Japanese")
 (define-category ?h "Korean")
-(define-category ?e "Ethiopic (Ge'ez)")
-(define-category ?v "Vietnamese")
+(define-category ?e "Ethiopic
+Ethiopic (Ge'ez)")
+(define-category ?v "Viet
+Vietnamese")
 (define-category ?i "Indian")
 (define-category ?o "Lao")
 (define-category ?q "Tibetan")
 
 ;; For each group (row) of 2-byte character sets.
 
-(define-category ?A "Alpha-numeric characters of 2-byte character sets")
-(define-category ?C "Chinese (Han) characters of 2-byte character sets")
-(define-category ?G "Greek characters of 2-byte character sets")
-(define-category ?H "Japanese Hiragana characters of 2-byte character sets")
-(define-category ?K "Japanese Katakana characters of 2-byte character sets")
-(define-category ?N "Korean Hangul characters of 2-byte character sets")
-(define-category ?Y "Cyrillic characters of 2-byte character sets")
+(define-category ?A "2-byte alnum
+Alpha-numeric characters of 2-byte character sets")
+(define-category ?C "2-byte han
+Chinese (Han) characters of 2-byte character sets")
+(define-category ?G "2-byte Greek
+Greek characters of 2-byte character sets")
+(define-category ?H "2-byte Hiragana
+Japanese Hiragana characters of 2-byte character sets")
+(define-category ?K "2-byte Katakana
+Japanese Katakana characters of 2-byte character sets")
+(define-category ?N "2-byte Korean
+Korean Hangul characters of 2-byte character sets")
+(define-category ?Y "2-byte Cyril
+Cyrillic characters of 2-byte character sets")
 (define-category ?I "Indian Glyphs")
 
 ;; For phonetic classifications.
 
 (define-category ?0 "consonant")
-(define-category ?1 "base (independent) vowel")
-(define-category ?2 "upper diacritical mark (including upper vowel)")
-(define-category ?3 "lower diacritical mark (including lower vowel)")
-(define-category ?4 "combining tone mark")
+(define-category ?1 "base vowel
+base (independent) vowel")
+(define-category ?2 "upper diacritic
+upper diacritical mark (including upper vowel)")
+(define-category ?3 "lower diacritic
+lower diacritical mark (including lower vowel)")
+(define-category ?4 "combining tone
+combining tone mark")
 (define-category ?5 "symbol")
 (define-category ?6 "digit")
-(define-category ?7 "vowel-modifying diacritical mark")
+(define-category ?7 "diacritic on vowel
+vowel-modifying diacritical mark")
 (define-category ?8 "vowel-signs")
 (define-category ?9 "semivowel lower")
 
 ;; For filling.
-(define-category ?| "While filling, we can break a line at this character.")
+(define-category ?| "line breakable
+While filling, we can break a line at this character.")
 
 ;; For indentation calculation.
 (define-category ?\s
-  "This character counts as a space for indentation purposes.")
+  "space for indent
+This character counts as a space for indentation purposes.")
 
 ;; Keep the following for `kinsoku' processing.  See comments in
 ;; kinsoku.el.
-(define-category ?> "A character which can't be placed at beginning of line.")
-(define-category ?< "A character which can't be placed at end of line.")
+(define-category ?> "Not at bol
+A character which can't be placed at beginning of line.")
+(define-category ?< "Not at eol
+A character which can't be placed at end of line.")
 
 ;; Combining
-(define-category ?^ "Combining diacritic or mark")
+(define-category ?^ "Combining
+Combining diacritic or mark")
 \f
 ;;; Setting syntax and category.