bug#3661: English errors in help for whitespace-style

bug#3661: English errors in help for whitespace-style

[Jay Berkenbilt]

There are some English errors in the help for the whitespace-style
variable that render some of the text virtually unintelligible to a
native English speaker (or at least to this particular native English
speaker).

Original:

   space-after-tab::space	TABs are visualized when occurs 8 or
				more SPACEs after a TAB via faces.

I would say

   space-after-tab::space	TABs are visualized using faces when 8 or
				more SPACEs occur after a TAB.

Original:

   space-before-tab::space	TABs are visualized when occurs SPACEs
				before TAB via faces.

I would say:

   space-before-tab::space	TABs are visualized using faces when
				SPACEs occur before TAB.

At least I think that's what I would say based on what I think the
variable seems to do, though I can't really tell from the original
wording.  (This is not a criticism of the author, whose English is much
better than my abilities in any non-English language!)

I would be willing to go through the documentation strings to help clean
up the English if it would help.

-- 
Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>

bug#3661: marked as done (English errors in help for whitespace-style)

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From: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: English errors in help for whitespace-style
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:30 -0400
Message-ID: <20090623170630.1797302320.qww314159@motoko.argon.local>


There are some English errors in the help for the whitespace-style
variable that render some of the text virtually unintelligible to a
native English speaker (or at least to this particular native English
speaker).

Original:

   space-after-tab::space	TABs are visualized when occurs 8 or
				more SPACEs after a TAB via faces.

I would say

   space-after-tab::space	TABs are visualized using faces when 8 or
				more SPACEs occur after a TAB.

Original:

   space-before-tab::space	TABs are visualized when occurs SPACEs
				before TAB via faces.

I would say:

   space-before-tab::space	TABs are visualized using faces when
				SPACEs occur before TAB.

At least I think that's what I would say based on what I think the
variable seems to do, though I can't really tell from the original
wording.  (This is not a criticism of the author, whose English is much
better than my abilities in any non-English language!)

I would be willing to go through the documentation strings to help clean
up the English if it would help.

-- 
Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>


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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
Cc: 3661-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: English errors in help for whitespace-style
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:48:10 -0400
Message-ID: <874os724t1.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

> There are some English errors in the help for the whitespace-style
> variable that render some of the text virtually unintelligible to a
> native English speaker (or at least to this particular native English
> speaker).

Fixed, thanks.