From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:35:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Special Properties): Fix description about
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~12104
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c8363161e69e29cc1828a96f5d740650998561c;p=emacs.git

(Special Properties): Fix description about
`compostion' property.
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diff --git a/lispref/text.texi b/lispref/text.texi
index f05a0cd696a..7e2194f06f0 100644
--- a/lispref/text.texi
+++ b/lispref/text.texi
@@ -3256,25 +3256,10 @@ Manual}) provides an example.
 @item composition
 @kindex composition @r{(text property)}
 This text property is used to display a sequence of characters as a
-single glyph composed from components.  For instance, in Thai a base
-consonant is composed with the following combining vowel as a single
-glyph.  The value should be a character or a sequence (vector, list,
-or string) of integers.
+single glyph composed from components.  But the value of the property
+itself is completely internal to Emacs and should not manipulated
+directly by, for instance, @code{put-text-property}.
 
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-If it is a character, it means to display that character instead of
-the text in the region.
-
-@item
-If it is a string, it means to display that string's contents instead
-of the text in the region.
-
-@item
-If it is a vector or list, the elements are characters interleaved
-with internal codes specifying how to compose the following character
-with the previous one.
-@end itemize
 @end table
 
 @node Format Properties