From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: minor typos in emacs.texi and files.texi
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:29:41 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1Ify6f-002KHlC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
Minor typos:
in emacs/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
in @detailmenu
* Old Revisions:: Examining and comparing old versions.
should be
* Old Revisions:: Examining and comparing old versions.
that is to say, remove one space before the word Examining
\f
in emacs/doc/emacs/files.texi
in @subsection Introduction to Version Control
systems with widely differing capabilities, it does provide
should be
systems with widely differing capabilities, it does provide
that is to say, remove one space before the word it
\f
in emacs/doc/emacs/files.texi
in @subsubsection Concepts of Version Control
work file at any time. When you check in a a file, the system will
should be
work file at any time. When you check in a file, the system will
that is to say, remove the extranous a
\f
in emacs/doc/emacs/files.texi
in @subsubsection Concepts of Version Control
please improve phrasing:
change
Most later version-control systems, such as GNU Arch, git, and
Mercurial, have been fundamentally merging-based rather than
locking-based.
to
Most later version-control systems, such as GNU Arch, git, and
Mercurial, are based on merging rather than locking.
\f
in emacs/doc/emacs/files.texi
in @subsubsection Concepts of Version Control
@dfn{master file} with its own comment- and revision history separate
should be
@dfn{master file} with its own comment- and revision history separate
that is to say, remove the extranous hyphen; I know why it is there,
but `comment history' succeeds.
\f
in emacs/doc/emacs/files.texi
in @subsubsection Concepts of Version Control
write tenses correctly
from that of all other files in the system. Later systems, beginning
with Subversion, are @dfn{changeset-based}; a checkin may include
changes to several files and that change set is treated as a unit by the
system. Any comment associated with the change doesn't belong to any
one file, but is attached to the changeset itself.
should be
from that of all other files in the system. Later systems,
beginning with Subversion, were @dfn{changeset-based}; a checkin
included changes to several files and that change set was (and
still is) treated as a unit by the system.
(I have refilled the latter.)
You might also change from
system. Any comment associated with the change doesn't belong to any
one file, but is attached to the changeset itself.
to
system. No comment associated with a change belongs to any one
file, but is attached to the changeset itself.
\f
in emacs/doc/emacs/files.texi
in @subsubsection Concepts of Version Control
there are lots of legacy repositories still to be dealt with at time of
writing in 2007.
shold be
there are lots of legacy repositories still to be dealt with at
the time of
writing in 2007.
that is to say, add `the' to `time of writing'; please don't ask me
why `time' is considered as concrete as `maple tree'.
\f
The `makeinfo' program converts three dashes or hyphens to two and two
dashes or hyphens to one. TeX converts three hyphens to a long dash.
The convention in the Emacs manual is to use three dashes, not two
dashes, in the Oxford style (I prefer the Cambridge style with three
dashes, but that is irrelevant).
However, emacs/doc/emacs/files.texi has both three and two dashes.
For example,
convention it uses to separate lines---newline (used on GNU/Linux and
in emacs/doc/emacs/files.texi
in @subsubsection Concepts of Version Control
changeset-based ones--the Subversion support, for example, used to break
single point of failure--if the repository server is down all work
and other double dashes, should be
changeset-based ones---the Subversion support, for example, used to break
single point of failure---if the repository server is down all work
\f
I stopped there. The next segment in emacs/doc/emacs/files.texi is
subsubsection Types of Log File
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