From bfbb9f063434623d7c3dac8aa4aaf64c4ec84373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre-Marie Pédrot
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:05:49 +0200
Subject: Documenting the Shrink Abstract option.

---
 doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex b/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex
index d388840df5..7011f1ef89 100644
--- a/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex
+++ b/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex
@@ -1028,6 +1028,18 @@ This tactical is useful with tactics such as \texttt{omega} or
 the user can avoid the explosion at time of the \texttt{Save} command
 without having to cut manually the proof in smaller lemmas.
 
+It may be useful to generate lemmas minimal w.r.t. the assumptions they depend
+on. This can be obtained thanks to the option below.
+
+\begin{quote}
+\optindex{Shrink Abstract}
+{\tt Set Shrink Abstract}
+\end{quote}
+
+When set, all lemmas generated through \texttt{abstract {\tacexpr}} are
+quantified only over the variables that appear in the term constructed by
+\texttt{\tacexpr}.
+
 \begin{Variants}
 \item \texttt{abstract {\tacexpr} using {\ident}}.\\
   Give explicitly the name of the auxiliary lemma.
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