diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e3f76727ca..f257fae8d6 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2016-06-16 Mike Frysinger + + * manual/contrib.texi: Fix spelling typos. + * manual/crypt.texi: Likewise. + * manual/filesys.texi: Likewise. + * manual/locale.texi: Likewise. + * manual/message.texi: Likewise. + * manual/nss.texi: Likewise. + * manual/string.texi: Likewise. + 2016-06-16 Rical Jasan * manual/locale.texi: Fix typos & grammar errors. diff --git a/manual/contrib.texi b/manual/contrib.texi index 930d614e9b..c1b0245906 100644 --- a/manual/contrib.texi +++ b/manual/contrib.texi @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd. Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes. @item -Liubov Dmitrieva for optimzed string and math functions on x86-64 and +Liubov Dmitrieva for optimized string and math functions on x86-64 and x86. @item diff --git a/manual/crypt.texi b/manual/crypt.texi index fd007cfa66..659688b98b 100644 --- a/manual/crypt.texi +++ b/manual/crypt.texi @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ to provide a definitive survey of the laws affecting cryptography. Instead, this section warns you of some of the known trouble spots; this may help you when you try to find out what the laws of your country are. -Some countries require that you have a licence to use, possess, or import +Some countries require that you have a license to use, possess, or import cryptography. These countries are believed to include Byelorussia, Burma, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi index b3236642e4..a22c21f012 100644 --- a/manual/filesys.texi +++ b/manual/filesys.texi @@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ of the following categories. This could be special files, sockets etc. The item is a directory. @item FTW_NS The @code{stat} call failed and so the information pointed to by the -second paramater is invalid. +second parameter is invalid. @item FTW_DNR The item is a directory which cannot be read. @item FTW_SL diff --git a/manual/locale.texi b/manual/locale.texi index d227d03cf7..780ce0145f 100644 --- a/manual/locale.texi +++ b/manual/locale.texi @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ as far as the system follows the Unix standards. Together with the @code{setlocale} function the @w{ISO C} people invented the @code{localeconv} function. It is a masterpiece of poor -design. It is expensive to use, not extendable, and not generally +design. It is expensive to use, not extensible, and not generally usable as it provides access to only @code{LC_MONETARY} and @code{LC_NUMERIC} related information. Nevertheless, if it is applicable to a given situation it should be used since it is very diff --git a/manual/message.texi b/manual/message.texi index b03a14a57a..98e88eaa6c 100644 --- a/manual/message.texi +++ b/manual/message.texi @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ industry decisions and therefore not necessarily based on reasonable decisions. As mentioned above the message catalog handling provides easy -extendibility by using external data files which contain the message +extendability by using external data files which contain the message translations. I.e., these files contain for each of the messages used in the program a translation for the appropriate language. So the tasks of the message handling functions are @@ -1639,12 +1639,12 @@ family. But in two places the string passed into the function would be @code{Open}. The translations might not be the same and therefore we are in the dilemma described above. -One solution to this problem is to artificially enlengthen the strings +One solution to this problem is to artificially extend the strings to make them unambiguous. But what would the program do if no -translation is available? The enlengthened string is not what should be +translation is available? The extended string is not what should be printed. So we should use a little bit modified version of the functions. -To enlengthen the strings a uniform method should be used. E.g., in the +To extend the strings a uniform method should be used. E.g., in the example above the strings could be chosen as @smallexample @@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@ for the Menu entries and therefore contains a @code{|} character. We simply search for the last occurrence of this character and return a pointer to the character following it. That's it! -If one now consistently uses the enlengthened string form and replaces +If one now consistently uses the extended string form and replaces the @code{gettext} calls with calls to @code{sgettext} (this is normally limited to very few places in the GUI implementation) then it is possible to produce a program which can be internationalized. @@ -1716,7 +1716,7 @@ with the second part which is: @item There is no way the C library can contain a version which can work everywhere. The problem is the selection of the character to separate -the prefix from the actual string in the enlenghtened string. The +the prefix from the actual string in the extended string. The examples above used @code{|} which is a quite good choice because it resembles a notation frequently used in this context and it also is a character not often used in message strings. @@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ why the @file{iso646.h} file exists in @w{ISO C} programming environments). @end itemize There is only one more comment to make left. The wrapper function above -require that the translations strings are not enlengthened themselves. +require that the translations strings are not extended themselves. This is only logical. There is no need to disambiguate the strings (since they are never used as keys for a search) and one also saves quite some memory and disk space by doing this. diff --git a/manual/nss.texi b/manual/nss.texi index ddc16026c0..2770fed41d 100644 --- a/manual/nss.texi +++ b/manual/nss.texi @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ here only important to remember that adding another database is independent from adding another service because a service need not support all databases or lookup functions. -A designer/implementor of a new service is therefore free to choose the +A designer/implementer of a new service is therefore free to choose the databases s/he is interested in and leave the rest for later (or completely aside). diff --git a/manual/string.texi b/manual/string.texi index bfbcc1922d..bce81a7c92 100644 --- a/manual/string.texi +++ b/manual/string.texi @@ -2300,7 +2300,7 @@ The GNU version of the @code{basename} function returns the last component of the path in @var{filename}. This function is the preferred usage, since it does not modify the argument, @var{filename}, and respects trailing slashes. The prototype for @code{basename} can be -found in @file{string.h}. Note, this function is overriden by the XPG +found in @file{string.h}. Note, this function is overridden by the XPG version, if @file{libgen.h} is included. Example of using GNU @code{basename}: