Docs: dimensions state when the menus dim Expand and when a dimension stays live

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@@ -39,9 +39,13 @@ ordinary paths and text, so exported dimensions look the same. Ungrouping a dime
paths and text as ordinary art. Object › Expand, Object › Expand Appearance, Type › Create Outlines
and Object › Path › Outline Stroke turn a dimension whose art they change into a plain group of that
art, also when they reach only a part of it: moving or scaling the group does not redraw it, it does
not follow the art it measured, and undoing the command gives the live dimension back. A dimension
selected with the art it measures also becomes a plain group when Object › Expand, Object › Expand
Appearance or Object › Path › Outline Stroke replaces only that art. Pasted
not follow the art it measured, and undoing the command gives the live dimension back. The menus dim
Object › Expand… while a whole dimension is selected, because its label has appearance items;
Object › Expand Appearance and the `object.expand` command still reach it. A dimension selected with
the art it measures also becomes a plain group when Object › Expand, Object › Expand Appearance or
Object › Path › Outline Stroke changes only that art and the art no longer fits the dimension's link,
for example because its number of anchors changed. When the art keeps its id and anchor count and the
dimension's own art does not change, the dimension stays live and its label shows the new length. Pasted
dimensions keep their geometry and drop their links, so they never bind to unrelated art in another
document.