Here is the latest diff of fixes. It's mostly typos but there are a few
grammatical errors there as well, including one or two syntax
corrections. I think I have most of the typos but you can never be too
sure. I shall start checking for grammar and syntax soon.
Index: BOOK/basicnet/mailnews/procmail.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/basicnet/mailnews/procmail.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/basicnet/mailnews/procmail.xml (working copy)
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
<sect3>
<title>Configuration Information</title>
- <para>Recipes have to be written and placed in your
+ <para>Recipes have to be written and placed in
<filename>~/.procmailrc</filename> for execution. The procmailex man
page is the starting place to learn how to write recipes.
For additional information, see also
Index: BOOK/basicnet/mailnews/mailx.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/basicnet/mailnews/mailx.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/basicnet/mailnews/mailx.xml (working copy)
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
<para>The <application>Heirloom mailx</application> package (formerly
known as the <application>Nail</application> package) contains
<command>mailx</command>, a command-line Mail User Agent derived from
- Berkeley Mail which is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX
+ Berkeley Mail. It is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX
<command>mailx</command> command with additional support for MIME messages,
IMAP (including caching), POP3, SMTP, S/MIME, message threading/sorting,
scoring, and filtering. <application>Heirloom mailx</application> is
Index: BOOK/basicnet/netprogs/subversion.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/basicnet/netprogs/subversion.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/basicnet/netprogs/subversion.xml (working copy)
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@
<para><command>sed -i '...' .../Makefile.PL.in</command>: This command
is used to fix a problem with compiling the <application>Perl</application>
- bindings. It can be ommitted if you're not building the bindings.</para>
+ bindings. It can be omitted if you're not building the bindings.</para>
<para><option>--with-neon=<replaceable><prefix></replaceable></option>:
This option should be used if you wish to use a system-installed version
Index: BOOK/basicnet/connect/connect.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/basicnet/connect/connect.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/basicnet/connect/connect.xml (working copy)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
DHCP, you will need a DHCP client in order to connect to it.</para>
<para>PPP stands for Point-to-Point Protocol. It is data link protocol
- commonly used for establishing an authenticated IP connections over
+ commonly used for establishing authenticated IP connections over
a phone line with a modem, or over radio waves with a cellular phone. There
is also a variant (PPPoE) that works over Ethernet and is used by cable
providers to authenticate the Internet connections.</para>
Index: BOOK/basicnet/connect/ppp.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/basicnet/connect/ppp.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/basicnet/connect/ppp.xml (working copy)
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
<command>make</command> command to compile in support for IPv6.</para>
<para><parameter>CBCP=y</parameter>: Add this argument to the
- <command>make</command> command to compile in support for
+ <command>make</command> command to compile in support for the
Microsoft proprietary Callback Control Protocol.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -165,9 +165,9 @@
<ulink url="http://alumnit.ca/wiki/?WvDial";>WvDial</ulink>
or <application>KPPP</application> from
<xref linkend="kdenetwork"/>. The text below explains how to set up
- dialup and GPRS and PPPoE connections using only tools provided with
+ dialup, GPRS and PPPoE connections using only tools provided with
the <application>PPP</application> package. All configuration steps
- in this section are executed as
+ in this section are executed as the
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user.</para>
<para>Add the users who may run <application>PPP</application> to the
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
chmod 755 /etc/ppp/ip-up</userinput></screen>
<para>If you use a caching DNS server such as <xref linkend="bind"/>
or <ulink url="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd.html";>Pdnsd</ulink>,
- the script above is wrong for you. In such case, write your
+ the script above is wrong for you. In such a case, write your
own script that tells your caching nameserver to forward queries to
upstream DNS servers specified in the $DNS1 and $DNS2 environment
variables.</para>
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@
<filename>/etc/ppp/dialup.chat</filename> file abort the script when
it receives an indication of an error from the modem. Then the timeout
is set to 5 seconds and the script checks that the modem responds to
- the dummy AT command at all. If not, measures are taken to dewedge it
+ the dummy AT command. If not, measures are taken to dewedge it
(by interrupting the data transfer and going on hook). Then the
telephone number is dialed, and the script waits for the answer for
75 seconds. The serial connection is considered established when the
@@ -302,8 +302,7 @@
support EDGE. - Alexander E. Patrakov -->
<para>GPRS and EDGE connections are established with the help of a
- cellular phone connected to a computer via serial or USB cable, or
- using Bluetooth.
+ cellular phone connected to a computer via serial, USB, or Bluetooth.
The phone exchanges data packets with the nearest base station,
which can be up to 35 kilometers away.
@@ -355,7 +354,7 @@
# Specify your cellphone serial port and speed below
# Note: you must manually send some vendor-specific AT commands
# to certain old cellular phones (such as Sony-Ericsson T200)
-# in order to achieve connection speed more than 9600 bits ber second.
+# in order to achieve connection speed more than 9600 bits per second.
<replaceable>/dev/ttyS1</replaceable>
<replaceable>115200</replaceable>
@@ -421,8 +420,8 @@
<para>In order to establish a PPP connection described by the
<filename>/etc/ppp/peers/<replaceable>peername</replaceable></filename>
- file, run, as root or as a member of the
- <systemitem class="groupname">pppusers</systemitem> group:</para>
+ file run (as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> or as a
member
+ of the <systemitem class="groupname">pppusers</systemitem> group):</para>
<screen><userinput>pon <replaceable>peername</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>In order to tear the connection down, run:</para>
Index: BOOK/postlfs/security/openssl.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/postlfs/security/openssl.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/postlfs/security/openssl.xml (working copy)
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
<para><command>cp -v -r certs /etc/ssl</command>: This installs both the
sample certificates and documentation included with OpenSSL, and the
- certificates that were extrated from the BLFS-ca-bundle-&ca-bundle-version;
+ certificates that were extracted from the
BLFS-ca-bundle-&ca-bundle-version;
package.</para>
<para><command>for pem in /etc/ssl/certs/*.pem...</command>: This group of
Index: BOOK/postlfs/security/shadow.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/postlfs/security/shadow.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/postlfs/security/shadow.xml (working copy)
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
<title>Configuring Shadow</title>
<para><application>Shadow</application>'s stock configuration for the
- <command>useradd</command> utility may not be desireable for your
+ <command>useradd</command> utility may not be desirable for your
installation. One default parameter causes <command>useradd</command> to
create a mailbox file for any newly created user.
<command>useradd</command> will make the group ownership of this file to
Index: BOOK/postlfs/security/mitkrb.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/postlfs/security/mitkrb.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/postlfs/security/mitkrb.xml (working copy)
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>You will need to substitute your domain and proper hostname
- for the occurences of the <replaceable><belgarath></replaceable>
and
+ for the occurrences of the
<replaceable><belgarath></replaceable> and
<replaceable><lfs.org></replaceable> names.</para>
<para><option>default_realm</option> should be the name of your
Index: BOOK/postlfs/security/gnupg2.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/postlfs/security/gnupg2.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/postlfs/security/gnupg2.xml (working copy)
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
<varlistentry id="gpgsm-gencert.sh">
<term><command>gpgsm-gencert.sh</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is a simple tool used to interactivly generate a certificate
+ <para>is a simple tool used to interactively generate a certificate
request which will be printed to stdout.</para>
<indexterm zone="gnupg2 gpgsm-gencert.sh">
<primary sortas="b-gpgsm-gencert.sh">gpgsm-gencert.sh</primary>
Index: BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml (working copy)
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
# compiling the OpenOffice package from source code using this copy
# of Firefox for your Mozilla support.
# This has NOT been tested, current versions of OpenOffice are
-# assumed not to compile agaisnt this version of xulrunner!
+# assumed not to compile against this version of xulrunner!
#
###################################################################
#ac_add_options --enable-ldap
Index: BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml (working copy)
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
XPIFILE=enigmail-&seamonkey-enigmail-version;.xpi
xpi</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite. However, it
- can be launched fom the build directory before installing with the
+ can be launched from the build directory before installing with the
command line:
<userinput>../seamonkey-build/dist/bin/seamonkey</userinput>.</para>
Index: BOOK/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml (working copy)
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@
<application>Enigmail</application>.</para>
<para><command>install .../{movemail,rss}.rdf</command>: These commands
- are used to install two mail extensions inadvertantly left out of the
+ are used to install two mail extensions inadvertently left out of the
installation script or installed to the wrong location.</para>
</sect2>
Index: BOOK/xsoft/office/evolution.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/xsoft/office/evolution.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/xsoft/office/evolution.xml (working copy)
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
binary.</para>
<para><option>--with-kde-applnk-path=<replaceable><$KDE_PREFIX/share/applnk></replaceable></option>:
- Use this parameter if you wnat the installation process to create a
+ Use this parameter if you want the installation process to create a
<filename class="extension">.desktop</filename> file in the KDE global
desktop file directory.</para>
Index: BOOK/xsoft/office/abiword.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/xsoft/office/abiword.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/xsoft/office/abiword.xml (working copy)
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
<para>If you have <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> installed,
you should run the <command>update-desktop-database</command> command
- to update the mimeminfo cache and allow the Help system to work.</para>
+ to update the mimeinfo cache and allow the Help system to work.</para>
</sect3>
Index: BOOK/server/other/openldap.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/server/other/openldap.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/server/other/openldap.xml (working copy)
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
<para><parameter>--enable-overlays</parameter>: This parameter enables
all available overlays.</para>
- <para><parameter>--disable-sql</parameter>: This parameter explicity
+ <para><parameter>--disable-sql</parameter>: This parameter explicitly
disables the sql backend. Omit this switch if a SQL server is
installed.</para>
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@
<varlistentry id="slapindex">
<term><command>slapindex</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is used to regenerate slapd indices based upon the current
+ <para>is used to regenerate slapd indexes based upon the current
contents of a database.</para>
<indexterm zone="openldap slapindex">
<primary sortas="b-slapindex">slapindex</primary>
Index: BOOK/server/major/openssh.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/server/major/openssh.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/server/major/openssh.xml (working copy)
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
<filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>, making sure that you
back up any existing copy first.</para>
- <para>To run the test suite, issue the following commnds:</para>
+ <para>To run the test suite, issue the following commands:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make tests 2>&1 | tee check.log
grep FATAL check.log</userinput></screen>
Index: BOOK/pst/printing/lprng.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/pst/printing/lprng.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/pst/printing/lprng.xml (working copy)
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@
<varlistentry id="lpd">
<term><command>lpd</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is the print queueing daemon.</para>
+ <para>is the print queuing daemon.</para>
<indexterm zone="LPRng lpd">
<primary sortas="b-lpd">lpd</primary>
</indexterm>
Index: BOOK/x/installing/x-setup.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/x/installing/x-setup.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/x/installing/x-setup.xml (working copy)
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
<filename>xorg.conf.new</filename>, in your home directory.</para>
<para>Recent versions of <application>xorg-server</application> force the
- use of the evdev input driver, and ignore legacy input devices definded in
+ use of the evdev input driver, and ignore legacy input devices defined in
<filename>xorg.conf</filename>. This will result in an X display that
seems to lock up if you are using legacy input devices and do not have the
proper input configuration files in place (added later). Add the following
Index: BOOK/general/prog/guile.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/general/prog/guile.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/general/prog/guile.xml (working copy)
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
This command is used to modify the <application>Guile</application>
<application>SLIB</application> initialization script. There are
incompatibilities with newer versions of <application>SLIB</application>
- and this command modifes the script to use the installed
+ and this command modifies the script to use the installed
<application>SLIB</application> script.</para>
</sect2>
Index: BOOK/general/prog/other-tools.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/general/prog/other-tools.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/general/prog/other-tools.xml (working copy)
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@
functional programming support (Scheme-like closures with lexical
scoping, and eval-like functionality), hierarchical namespaces, a rich
set of useful built-in types (dynamic arrays, dictionaries, symbols,
- ...), extensibile with C (you can add functions, types, classes, methods,
+ ...), extensible with C (you can add functions, types, classes, methods,
packages, ...), embeddable in C. <application>elastiC</application> has
been strongly influenced by C, Smalltalk, Scheme and Python and tries to
merge the best characteristics of all these languages, while still
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@
for simplifying use of the HTTP protocol and many other aspects of Web
service programming. To support program development,
<application>JWIG</application> provides a unique suite of highly
- specialized program analyses that at compile time verify for a given
+ specialized program analysers that at compile time verify for a given
program that no runtime errors can occur while building documents or
receiving form input, and that all documents being shown are valid
according to the document type definition for XHTML 1.0. The main goal of
Index: BOOK/general/graphlib/lcms.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/general/graphlib/lcms.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/general/graphlib/lcms.xml (working copy)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
<!ENTITY lcms-download-ftp "&gentoo-ftp-repo;/lcms-&lcms-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY lcms-md5sum "07bdbb4cfb05d21caa58fe3d1c84ddc1">
<!ENTITY lcms-size "878 KB">
- <!ENTITY lcms-buildsize "21 MB (includes building and installign the
SWIG bindings)">
+ <!ENTITY lcms-buildsize "21 MB (includes building and installing the
SWIG bindings)">
<!ENTITY lcms-time "0.5 SBU (includes building and installing the
SWIG bindings)">
]>
Index: BOOK/general/genutils/graphviz.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/general/genutils/graphviz.xml (revision 7826)
+++ BOOK/general/genutils/graphviz.xml (working copy)
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
placed on a sequence of concentric circles centered about the origin,
each a fixed radial distance from the previous circle.</para>
<indexterm zone="graphviz twopi">
- <primary sortas="b-twopi">twopk</primary>
+ <primary sortas="b-twopi">twopi</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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