From fa767fa485d53e5326c42b8f567f09f5a780218e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marijn Haverbeke <marijnh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:47:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Reword things in in the manual to prevent confusion about
 font sizes

---
 manual.html | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/manual.html b/manual.html
index 63ba133dd..67d891b14 100644
--- a/manual.html
+++ b/manual.html
@@ -299,8 +299,8 @@
       <dt id="class_CodeMirror"><code>CodeMirror</code></dt>
       <dd>The outer element of the editor. This should be used for
       borders and positioning. Can also be used to set styles that
-      should hold for everything inside the editor, or to set a
-      background.</dd>
+      should hold for everything inside the editor (such as font
+      and font size), or to set a background.</dd>
 
       <dt id="class_CodeMirror_scroll"><code>CodeMirror-scroll</code></dt>
       <dd>This determines whether the editor scrolls (<code>overflow:
@@ -323,9 +323,10 @@
 
       <dt id="class_CodeMirror_gutter_text"><code>CodeMirror-gutter-text</code></dt>
       <dd>Used to style the actual line numbers. For the numbers to
-      line up, you'll want this style to use exactly the same font and
-      vertical padding as normal edited text, as per
-      the <code>CodeMirror-lines</code> class.</dd>
+      line up, you must make sure that the font in the gutter is the
+      same as the one in the rest of the editor, so you should
+      probably only set font style and size in
+      the <code>CodeMirror</code> class.</dd>
 
       <dt id="class_CodeMirror_lines"><code>CodeMirror-lines</code></dt>
       <dd>The visible lines. If this has vertical
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