Document 1.5.2+ aspects of the NotANumber exception. (Note that this

is in the development branch, not the maintenance branch!)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfpformat.tex b/Doc/lib/libfpformat.tex
index 94e434c2b99a2ed0998647e545cbd5cee544c8a7..c67d83468b703b807602967d7967feef7e9f98dd 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/lib/libfpformat.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfpformat.tex
@@ -38,8 +38,11 @@ Return value is a string.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{NotANumber}
-Exception raised when a string does not look like a number when the 
-documentation says it should.
+Exception raised when a string passed to \function{fix()} or
+\function{sci()} as the \var{x} parameter does not look like a number.
+This is a subclass of \exception{ValueError} when the standard
+exceptions are strings.  The exception value is the improperly
+formatted string that caused the exception to be raised.
 \end{excdesc}
 
 Example: