From: TonyMc <afmcc@btinternet.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Some documentation suggestions
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:01:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9kl591qf25p4pcr4beoskfgb8qpb23j20@4ax.com> (raw)
Dear Bastien et al,
I have been reading through the Org manual (version 8.2.1) and have
found a few errors of grammar or places where the English doesn't
sound right. I list them below with some suggested replacements
(separated by ->). I hope this is helpful.
Best,
Tony
* 1.4 Feedback
"If you re" -> "If you are"
* 2.5 Structure Editing
"level than" -> "level as" (twice)
* 2.6 Sparse Trees
"several commands creating" -> "several commands for creating"
* 2.7 Plain Lists
"theirs sub-items" -> "their sub-items"
3.1 Table editor
"region to table" -> "region to a table"
3.5.1 References
"one but last" -> "last but one"
3.5.4 Durations and time values
"[HH:MM[:SS]" -> "HH:MM[:SS]"
3.5.5 Field and range formulas
"column and rows" -> "columns and rows"
"To avoid this from happening" -> "To prevent this from happening" or
"To avoid this"
3.5.6 Column formulas
"can not" -> "cannot"
4.2 Internal links
"put the line" -> "put in the line"
4.6 Link abbreviations
"text don't" -> "text doesn't"
5.2.3 Multiple keyword sets
"S-<<right>>" -> "S-<right>"
5.3.2 Tracking TODO state changes
"you not only" -> "You not only"
7.1 Property syntax
"activate this changes." -> "activate this change."
7.5.2 Using column view
"modified values is" -> "modified value is"
8 Dates and times
"used as indicating" -> "used to indicate"
8.1 Timestamps, deadlines and scheduling
""That order depend" -> "That order depends"
8.3 Deadlines and scheduling
"a specific deadlines" -> "a specific deadline"
"task get scheduled" -> "task gets scheduled"
8.4 Clocking work time
"to that you can" -> "so that you can"
8.4.1 Clocking commands
"in inserts it" -> "and inserts it"
8.4.2 The Clock table
"and specify" -> "specifies"
"either absolute" -> "either absolutely"
"There options" -> "These options"
10.3.3 Matching tags and properties
"one of the tag" -> "one of the tags"
"Except the Special properties" -> "In addition to the Special
properties"
10.4.4 Filtering/limiting agenda items
"_fitlers_" -> "_filters_"
"Filter are" -> "Filters are"
"catogories" -> "categories"
"that as no effort" -> "that has no effort"
10.6.3 Setting options for custom commands
"an agenda commands" -> "an agenda command"
11 Markup for rich export
"like HTML, LaTeX" -> "like HTML and LaTeX"
Document title
"associated to buffer" -> "associated with the buffer"
11.8 Special blocks
"at a specific back-ends" -> "at a specific back-end"
12.11 Other built-in back-ends
"these export back-end" -> "these export back-ends"
15.3 Speed keys
"Speed keys do not only" -> "Speed keys not only"
15.4 Code evaluation and security issues
" work with the code snippets" -> "work with code snippets"
15.6 Summary of in-buffer settings
"any of those lines" -> "any of these lines"
Appendix A Hacking
"some aspects" -> "some areas"
A.4 Adding export back-ends
"or from deriving them" -> "or by deriving them"
A.8 Special agenda views
"the same than `agenda'" -> "the same as `agenda'"
A.9 Speeding up your agendas
"slowliness caused by accessing to" -> "slowdown caused by accessing"
Appendix B MobileOrg
"It does also allow" -> "It also allows"
B.1 Setting up the staging area
"consider to encrypt" -> "consider encrypting"
B.2 Pushing to MobileOrg
"same name than their" -> "same name as their"
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-13 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-13 17:01 TonyMc [this message]
2013-10-14 4:49 ` Some documentation suggestions Noorul Islam K M
2013-10-14 5:11 ` [PATCH] doc: Fix grammar and typo Noorul Islam K M
2013-10-14 6:42 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-10-14 7:28 ` Noorul Islam Kamal Malmiyoda
2013-10-14 6:40 ` Some documentation suggestions Carsten Dominik
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