* [PATCH] Some fixes to doc/ref/scheme-data.texi
@ 2002-10-26 21:11 Stephen Compall
2002-10-27 22:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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From: Stephen Compall @ 2002-10-26 21:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
So I was reading my printed copy of the Guile reference manual from CVS,
and hit chapter 18 in a desire to be able to do more with Guile data
than list and vector ops. Got a notebook, made some notes about what I
thought could be changed in the manual itself. So here are some fixes to
the first part of that chapter.
My ChangeLog entry:
2002-10-26 Stephen Compall <rushing@sigecom.net>
* scheme-data.texi: Addition and change of many Texinfo tags,
particularly usage of @var and @samp, as well as reformatting of
some lists into tables and usage of @result.
Notes about some things I didn't understand, as well as a
missing section on non-control characters.
I avoided rewrapping paragraphs in some cases so the patch would be
easier to read, unless the lines became *way* too long.
I imagine that some of the things I changed might have been
automatically placed there, with sources somewhere else. So forgive me
for not changing those sources, if this is so.
The diff -u against CVS HEAD is ~28kb, and is currently available at
http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/scheme-data-1S11.patch
It has been tested against makeinfo 4.2 and TeX.
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* Re: [PATCH] Some fixes to doc/ref/scheme-data.texi
2002-10-26 21:11 [PATCH] Some fixes to doc/ref/scheme-data.texi Stephen Compall
@ 2002-10-27 22:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-10-28 1:48 ` Updated " Stephen Compall
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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen @ 2002-10-27 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bug-guile
From: Stephen Compall <rushing@sigecom.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:11:41 -0500
2002-10-26 Stephen Compall <rushing@sigecom.net>
* scheme-data.texi: Addition and change of many Texinfo tags,
particularly usage of @var and @samp, as well as reformatting of
some lists into tables and usage of @result.
Notes about some things I didn't understand, as well as a
missing section on non-control characters.
http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/scheme-data-1S11.patch
the changelog entry neglects to mention some incorrect replacements of
"iff" w/ "if". the former is a notational shorthand for "if and only
if" (see node "Manual Conventions"). could you correct these and post
another patch?
thi
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* Updated [PATCH] Some fixes to doc/ref/scheme-data.texi
2002-10-27 22:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
@ 2002-10-28 1:48 ` Stephen Compall
2002-10-28 3:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-11-03 23:20 ` Neil Jerram
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From: Stephen Compall @ 2002-10-28 1:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/scheme-data-1S11.patch
>
> the changelog entry neglects to mention some incorrect replacements of
> "iff" w/ "if". the former is a notational shorthand for "if and only
> if" (see node "Manual Conventions"). could you correct these and post
> another patch?
Have done. /me foolishly overlooked (guile)Manual Conventions, and drew
mental connection to "many typos of if."? :-S
http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/scheme-data-2S11.patch
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doesn't suit the people who wants to be able to own individual copies
and can get money for individual copies. That's an idea that only fits
conserved objects. So they do their best to render programs like
material objects. Have you wondered why, when you go to the software
store and buy a copy of a program it comes in something that looks
like a book? They want people to think as if they were getting a
material object, not to realize what they have really got in the form
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* Re: Updated [PATCH] Some fixes to doc/ref/scheme-data.texi
2002-10-28 1:48 ` Updated " Stephen Compall
@ 2002-10-28 3:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-11-03 23:20 ` Neil Jerram
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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen @ 2002-10-28 3:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bug-guile
From: Stephen Compall <rushing@sigecom.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:48:53 -0600
Have done. /me foolishly overlooked (guile)Manual Conventions, and
drew mental connection to "many typos of if."? :-S
no worries.
http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/scheme-data-2S11.patch
thanks. looks like it's time for me to re-read the texinfo manual -- i
didn't realize there was @math and @acronym.
thi
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* Re: Updated [PATCH] Some fixes to doc/ref/scheme-data.texi
2002-10-28 1:48 ` Updated " Stephen Compall
2002-10-28 3:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
@ 2002-11-03 23:20 ` Neil Jerram
2002-11-04 5:11 ` Stephen Compall
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From: Neil Jerram @ 2002-11-03 23:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bug-guile
>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Compall <rushing@sigecom.net> writes:
Stephen> Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
>> http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/scheme-data-1S11.patch
>> the changelog entry neglects to mention some incorrect replacements
>> of
>> "iff" w/ "if". the former is a notational shorthand for "if and only
>> if" (see node "Manual Conventions"). could you correct these and post
>> another patch?
Stephen> Have done. /me foolishly overlooked (guile)Manual Conventions, and
Stephen> drew mental connection to "many typos of if."? :-S
Stephen> http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/scheme-data-2S11.patch
Hi Stephen
Sorry for not replying more quickly... I plan to apply this to Guile
CVS (unstable and, where applicable, stable) sometime in the next
week.
Does the patch include any chunks of new text that are big enough for
us to need papers from you?
Neil
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2002-11-03 23:20 ` Neil Jerram
@ 2002-11-04 5:11 ` Stephen Compall
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From: Stephen Compall @ 2002-11-04 5:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Neil Jerram wrote:
> Sorry for not replying more quickly... I plan to apply this to Guile
> CVS (unstable and, where applicable, stable) sometime in the next
> week.
>
> Does the patch include any chunks of new text that are big enough for
> us to need papers from you?
No. a.k.a., I sure hope they don't give copyright for what I did... :)
It's just a load of new Texinfo tagging, TeX quote fixes, etc. I'm using
the book to learn Guile/Scheme, so I don't have anything to add at this
time, other than some notes about things I felt were missing. (Like,
what are traps anyway? 8-)
Occasionally, when reading a printed free book, I grab a pen & paper and
write down some fixes. If/when I do this again, I'll pass along the results.
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didn't sit right with me: the idea that you had to "prove your hacker
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