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@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ one large window.
To turn off Follow mode, type @kbd{M-x follow-mode} a second time.
@node Faces
-@section Using Multiple Typefaces
+@section Faces: Controlling Text Display Style
@cindex faces
You can specify various styles for displaying text using
@@ -298,11 +298,11 @@ terminals support inverse video, bold, and underline attributes; some
support colors. Text-only terminals generally do not support changing
the height and width or the font family.
- Emacs uses faces automatically for highlighting, through the work of
-Font Lock mode. @xref{Font Lock}, for more information about Font
-Lock mode and syntactic highlighting. You can print out the buffer
-with the highlighting that appears on your screen using the command
-@code{ps-print-buffer-with-faces}. @xref{PostScript}.
+ Most major modes assign faces to the text automatically through the
+work of Font Lock mode. @xref{Font Lock}, for more information about
+Font Lock mode and syntactic highlighting. You can print the current
+buffer with the highlighting that appears on your screen using the
+command @code{ps-print-buffer-with-faces}. @xref{PostScript}.
You control the appearance of a part of the text in the buffer by
specifying the face or faces to use for it. The style of display used