Re: [emacs-humanities] Form-feed as literary-style scene breaks

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Feedback-ID: 791:353:null:purelymail
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:35:00 +1000
> From: "Paul W. Rankin via Emacs-humanities" <emacs-humanities@gnu.org>
> 
> All characters in Emacs are actually numbers. Emacs 
> knows what to display in place of the numbers thanks to display tables. 

This could be interpreted as meaning that in the default configuration
each and every character is displayed using the information in a
display table.  Which is not true, since by default the standard
display table is almost entirely empty, and Emacs displays almost all
of the characters as themselves.

A better way of saying that is that _if_ a character's slot in the
display table is non-nil, Emacs will display the code in that slot
instead of the usual way of displaying the character.

Sorry for this nit-picking.