diff --git a/doc/Protocol-A.texi b/doc/Protocol-A.texi
index e9478f89e011ef231cdf4fef28399d9a13ada4ab..cd43a80fb945f3e700d603f41a19d44e51cdc3f1 100644
--- a/doc/Protocol-A.texi
+++ b/doc/Protocol-A.texi
@@ -2153,7 +2153,10 @@ The local number of the earliest existing article written by the person.
 The local number applies to a local-to-global mapping containing all
 articles written by the person.
 @item no-of-created-texts
-This holds the number of articles written by the person.
+This holds the number of articles written by the person, not counting
+the articles created before the earliest existing article written by
+the person.  To get the true number of created articles, compute
+@field{first-created-local-no} + @field{no-of-created-texts} - 1.
 @item no-of-marks
 The number of marked texts this person has.
 @item no-of-confs