if you fill many roles.
Setting the @code{gnus-named-posting-styles} variable will make
-posting-styles allow to have distinctive names. It is an alist which
-maps the names to styles. If an attribute has a name @code{import},
-Gnus will look for the attribute value in
-@code{gnus-named-posting-styles} and import user defined attributes.
+posting-styles allow to have distinctive names.
+@code{gnus-named-posting-styles} is an alist which maps the names to
+styles. Once a posting-style is added to the alist, we can import it
+from @code{gnus-posting-styles}. If an attribute whose name is
+@code{import} is found, Gnus will look for the attribute value in
+@code{gnus-named-posting-styles} and expand it in place.
+
+Here's an example:
@lisp
(setq gnus-named-posting-styles
(organization "The Church of Emacs"))))
@end lisp
-The posting-style named "Emacs" will take over all the attributes from
+The posting-style named "Emacs" will inherit all the attributes from
"Default" except @code{organization}. You can specify an arbitrary
posting-style when article posting with @kbd{S P} in the summary buffer.