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@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ top, left, right or bottom.  The Options => Show/Hide menu has entries
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 ** ImageMagick support.
-It is now possible to use the Imagemagick library to load many new
-image formats in Emacs.  It is enable by default.  To disable this, use
+It is now possible to use the ImageMagick library to load many new
+image formats in Emacs.  By default, Emacs links with the ImageMagick
+libraries if they are present at build time.  To disable this, use
 the configure option `--without-imagemagick'.
 
 The new function `imagemagick-types' returns a list of image file