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diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index febe3212ba9..5fee37361fd 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi @@ -1052,8 +1052,9 @@ precision specifies how many decimal places to show; if zero, the decimal-point itself is also omitted. For @samp{%s} and @samp{%S}, the precision truncates the string to the given width, so @samp{%.3s} shows only the first three characters of the representation for -@var{object}. Precision has no effect for other specification -characters. +@var{object}. For other specification characters, the effect of +precision is what the local library functions of the @code{printf} +family produce. @node Case Conversion @section Case Conversion in Lisp |