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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: Re: Success using Windows NT]
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:47:28 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206141547.g5EFlSk08900@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zny09ick.fsf@nyaumo.btinternet.com> (message from Jason Rumney on 13 Jun 2002 00:40:11 +0100)

The text is basically clear.  Sometimes it uses the future tense
and passive voice when it ought to stick to the active present:

+ On MS-Windows, if LANG is not already set in the environment when
+ Emacs starts, it will be set by Emacs based on the system-wide default

It is clearer to say,

+ On MS-Windows, if LANG is not already set in the environment when
+ Emacs starts, Emacs sets it based on the system-wide default

Could you go through and make such changes wherever they are
appropriate?

Aside from that, there are many errors in Texinfo usage.
For instance, LANG being an envvar, it should be
written in @env.  Could you reread the part of the Texinfo manual
that discusses these commands, then go through and make corrections?

    + Windows.  While running @code{addpm.exe} is no longer strictly
    + neccesary in recent versions of Emacs, if you are upgrading from an

That's a spelling error; it should be "necessary".

      Finally, if the
    + values are still not determined, the compiled in defaults are used.

You need to write "compiled-in" for clarity.  (This is also a good
place to replace the passive voice with active.)

Thanks for working on this; with a little more work, as described
above, it will do the job just fine.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-14 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200206111926.g5BJQIh03709@aztec.santafe.edu>
2002-06-12 23:40 ` [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: Re: Success using Windows NT] Jason Rumney
2002-06-14 15:47   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-06-14 22:59     ` Jason Rumney
2002-06-16 17:48       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-17 19:45         ` Jason Rumney
2002-06-14 17:19   ` Dr Francis J. Wright

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