Package: transfig
Version: 1:3.2.5-rel-3.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The fig2mpdf manual has many spelling mistakes and other English
errors. In the attached patch, I went through and fixed the errors I
found in the man page. On the HTML documentation I just ran a spell
checker; there are still many errors. You may want to run it by the
debian-l10n-english team.
Best,
Dylan Thurston
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages transfig depends on:
ii gawk 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library
ii x11-common 1:7.3+18 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
Versions of packages transfig recommends:
ii ghostscript-x [gs] 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii netpbm 2:10.0-12 Graphics conversion tools
Versions of packages transfig suggests:
ii xfig 1:3.2.5-rel-3 Facility for Interactive Generatio
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diff -ur transfig-3.2.5-rel.orig/fig2mpdf/doc/fig2mpdf.html transfig-3.2.5-rel/fig2mpdf/doc/fig2mpdf.html
--- transfig-3.2.5-rel.orig/fig2mpdf/doc/fig2mpdf.html 2008-11-08 09:50:50.000000000 +0100
+++ transfig-3.2.5-rel/fig2mpdf/doc/fig2mpdf.html 2008-11-08 10:04:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<HTML LANG="de">
+<HTML LANG="en">
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="TEXT/HTML; CHARSET=ISO-8859-15">
<META name="AUTHOR" LANG="en" CONTENT="Pfeiffer">
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@
<p><b>fig2mpdf</b> is an universal tool for creating figures to
include either in PDF or in PostScript documents. Regardless the output
type which is selectable by just one switch, the resulting document has
-exactely the size of the figure designed by <b>xfig</b>. In contrast to
+exactly the size of the figure designed by <b>xfig</b>. In contrast to
other tools <b>fig2mpdf</b> uses <b>pdflatex</b> in PDF mode for typesetting
special texts of the figure so that the resulting documents never looks
like the one shown in figure 1. But the most important feature of this tool is the
capability to create multiple figures of one Fig file which might be
-overlayed in a presentation e.g created by the powerfull beamer
+overlayed in a presentation e.g created by the powerful beamer
package.</p>
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
text of the figure</li>
<li>Uses pdflatex if PDF and LaTeX mode is selected to avoid font
problems (see fig. 1)</li>
- <li>handles overlayed texts in latex mode correctly by using the pdftex_p rsp.
+ <li>handles overlayed texts in latex mode correctly by using the pdftex_p resp.
pstex_p driver of fig2dev</li>
</ul>
@@ -100,19 +100,19 @@
-<P><A HREF="http://www.xfig.org";>xfig</A> is one powerfull tool for
+<P><A HREF="http://www.xfig.org";>xfig</A> is one powerful tool for
creating figures. You can bind images of all types into your figures
and there are all export filters you may ever need. But it's a hard
work to build all necessary figure documents separately because they
-all have to have the same size and all items who occure in more than
+all have to have the same size and all items who occur in more than
one document have to be placed identically to avoid any unwanted
-movements of these items. Furthermore it's nearly a misson impossible
+movements of these items. Furthermore it's nearly a mission impossible
to maintain all these figures e.g. if you want to change a position of
one element which is present in more than one figure file.
</p>
<p><b>fig2mpdf</b> can do this work for you! The overlay figures are
-splited by the depths of their elements. Elements of consecutively used
+split by the depths of their elements. Elements of consecutively used
depths can be put into an own overlay document i.e. if there is a gap
of at least one in the used depths this gap splits the figure (you can
specify a maximum gap width which does not split the figure). Since
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
other documents are to put successively on top. The second row show the
pyramid mode of <b>fig2mpdf</b> where the documents additionally
contains the stuff of the ranges of higher depth. Here each document
-can stay allone.
+can stay alone.
</P>
<P><CENTER><TABLE BORDER=0>
<TR VALIGN=middle><TD> </TD>
@@ -177,11 +177,11 @@
<P>There are many reasons for using <B>LaTeX</B> for typesetting your
articles or even books --- compatibility, reusability and complex
-formulars to mention just three of them. Once the decision is taken to
+formulas to mention just three of them. Once the decision is taken to
use LaTeX you might or probably should want to have the same
typesetting in your figures. This is for having exactly the same
symbols in the text an the figures or you might want to have some
-formulars in your figures.</p>
+formulas in your figures.</p>
<p>To achieve this you have to set the special flag of these texts
LaTeX should typeset (normally all texts but keep in mind that this
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
export with pstex_t creates a body of a LaTeX document which includes
the just mentioned eps graphics file. This eps document is included in
that way that <i>all</i> LaTeX texts are put on top of it. Because of this
-isn't allways usefull, i.e. if you have overlayed texts in the figure,
+isn't always useful, i.e. if you have overlayed texts in the figure,
I have created the two drivers
<a href="fig2dev-pdftex_p.html">pstex_p</a> and <a
href="fig2dev-pdftex_p.html">pdftex_p</a> who are used by <b>fig2mpdf</b>.</p>
diff -ur transfig-3.2.5-rel.orig/fig2mpdf/fig2mpdf.1 transfig-3.2.5-rel/fig2mpdf/fig2mpdf.1
--- transfig-3.2.5-rel.orig/fig2mpdf/fig2mpdf.1 2008-11-08 09:50:50.000000000 +0100
+++ transfig-3.2.5-rel/fig2mpdf/fig2mpdf.1 2008-11-08 10:06:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -7,28 +7,28 @@
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This tool can create pdf or eps figures using fig files as source. For beamer
-presentations for example you can use the multilayer mode to create
-multiple figures who can be overlayed to get a dynamic figure. For
-the propper appearance you can use latex for typeseting all or some texts
-who probably contain formulas.
+presentations, for example, you can use the multilayer mode to create
+multiple figures that can be overlayed to get a dynamic figure. For
+proper appearance you can use latex to typeset some or all texts,
+possibly containing formulas.
-The default interpretation of the given fig \fIFILE\fR depends on it's suffix
+The default interpretation of the given fig \fIFILE\fR depends on its suffix.
.TP
\fIfig\fR
-Normal convertion of a fig file. All texts are interpreted as postscript
+Normal conversion of a fig file. All texts are interpreted as postscript
texts and all elements of the figure are included in the resulting figure.
.TP
\fIlfig\fR
-LaTeX interpretation of the file. All texts of the input file who have the
-special bit set are typeseted by pdflatex rsp. latex (see: Option \fB\-|+l\fR).
+LaTeX interpretation of the file. All texts of the input file that have the
+special bit set are typeset by pdflatex resp. latex (see: Option \fB\-|+l\fR).
.TP
\fImfig\fR
Multilayer file interpretation. Depending on the used depths of the
-figure it's splited into multiple parts. For each part an output file is
+figure it is split into multiple parts. For each part an output file is
created (see: section \fBMultiLayerOutput\fR).
.TP
\fImlfig\fR or \fIlmfig\fR
-Combination of multilayer and LaTeX interpretation of the intput (see: Suffix
+Combination of multilayer and LaTeX interpretation of the input (see: Suffix
\fIlfig\fR and \fImfig\fR).
.PP
The default interpretation of the input can be changed by using the options below.
@@ -36,29 +36,29 @@
.PP
.TP
\fB\-e\fR
-produce an eps output file. Instead creating a pdf file which is default
+produce an eps output file. Instead of creating a pdf file (the default)
an eps figure is produced.
.TP
\fB\-|+l\fR
-force calling (pdf)latex (-) or do not using (pdf)latex (+) for
+force calling (pdf)latex (-) or do not use (pdf)latex (+) for
typesetting the text marked with the special flag. With this option you
can change the default behaviour given by the input file suffix.
.TP
\fB\-|+m\fR
-force set (-) or unset (+) the multilayer interpretiation (see:
+force set (-) or unset (+) the multilayer interpretation (see:
\fBMultiLayerOutput\fR below) which was previously set by the input
file suffix.
.TP
\fB\-p\fR \fIranges\fR
-explicitely set the ranges of depths for splitting the input figure in
+explicitly set the ranges of depths for splitting the input figure in
multilayer mode. \fIranges\fR is a colon separated list of ranges of
the form \fIupper-lower\fR or \fIdepth\fR where \fIupper\fR is the
-topmost, \fIlower\fR the downmost depth to the range. If you use the
-\fIdepth\fR type the range consist of just that depth.
+top and \fIlower\fR the bottom depth in the range. If you use the
+\fIdepth\fR form the range consist of just that depth.
.TP
\fB\-i\fR
-include the the downmost range (that one with the highest depths) into
-all output figures. This is for comatibility to older versions of this
+include the the bottommost range (that is, the one with the highest depth) into
+all output figures. This is for compatibility to older versions of this
tool.
.TP
\fB\-I\fR
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
.TP
\fB\-s\fR \fIstyle\fR
replace the default style for selecting a font family in LaTeX mode.
- If this option is omitted the style `times' is set by default.
+If this option is omitted the style `times' is set by default.
.TP
\fB\-H\fR \fIheader\fR
replace the default header sequence for creating temporary
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
\fBCustomized Headers\fR below).
.TP
\fB\-G\fR
-in multilayer mode change the default output file pattern to the PGF
+in multilayer mode change the default output file pattern to the PDF
format which is <name>.page<no>.<ext>
.TP
\fB\-v\fR
@@ -96,39 +96,39 @@
figure. These depths are normally used to determine the order of
printing the objects. \fBfig2mpdf\fR uses these depths to group the
objects into ranges in automatic mode (if the ranges option is
-omitted). Of the list of used depths consecutively numberd depths are
-grouped into one range. I.e. all gaps between used depths are splitting
-the figure logically. With \fB\-g\fR you can set the accepted gapwidth
-which doesn't split the figure (default gapwidth is zero).
+omitted). In the list of used depths, consecutively numbered depths are
+grouped into one range. That is, all gaps between used depths are used
+to logically split the figure. With \fB\-g\fR you can set the
+gapwidth which doesn't split the figure (default: zero).
.PP
-The obtained list of ranges determine the number output files. In
+The resulting list of ranges determines the number of output files. In
default mode all objects with depths assigned to one range are
collected and put into the corresponding output file. The contents of
the output files can be changed with the two Options \fB\-i\fR and
\fB\-I\fR.
.PP
The \fB\-i\fR option reduces the number of output files by one. The
-downmost range, this is the range which consist of the highest depths
+bottommost range, that is the range which consist of the highest depths
of the figure, is included into all output files.
.PP
In pyramid mode, activated by the option \fB\-I\fR, the output files
-are containing additionally all lower ranges. With this mode you can
-get stand allone figures who don't have to be overlayed to have
-meaningfull content.
+contain additionally all lower ranges. With this mode you can
+get stand alone figures that don't have to be overlayed to have
+meaningful content.
.PP
\fBExample 1\fR
.PD 0
.PP
-Assuming that you have a fig file \fIfoo.fig\fR which contains the three ranges
+Assume that you have a fig file \fIfoo.fig\fR which contains the three ranges
.IR "230-233",
.IR "455-460"
and
-.IR 499-500
+.IR "499-500".
.PD
.PP
-With no options set you get three output files one per range. But if you
+With no options set you get three output files, one per range. But if you
set the \fB\-i\fR option you get the following two files where the
-downmost range is included in both of the files:
+bottommost range is included in both of the files:
.PD 0
.PP
\fIfoo-0.pdf\fR with ranges \fI455-460\fR and \fI499-500\fR
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@
\fBExample 2\fR
.PD 0
.PP
-The pyramid mode activated by the option \fB\-I\fR will produce the
-following files of the source file of \fBExample 1\fR:
+The pyramid mode, activated by the option \fB\-I\fR, will produce the
+following files from the source file of \fBExample 1\fR:
.PP
\fIfoo-0.pdf\fR with ranges \fI499-500\fR
.PP
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@
\fBExample 3\fR
.PD 0
.PP
-If both options are set you will get just two files of following
-contens:
+If both options are set you will get just two files with the following
+contents:
.PP
\fIfoo-0.pdf\fR with ranges \fI455-460\fR and \fI499-500\fR
.PP
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@
.PD
.PP
.SH "Customized Headers"
-For some reason you might want to change the standard latex generation,
-e.g. if you want to change the default font family. The following
+For various reasons you might want to change the standard latex generation,
+e.g., if you want to change the default font family. The following
example represents a valid header file.
The usage of this example file changes the font family to sans serif
@@ -181,23 +181,23 @@
The following packages are generally used: \fBcolor\fR, \fBgraphicx\fR and \fBepsfig\fR.
.SH "Tex errors"
-Sometimes it may occure that latex generates an error while processing
-your special texts. To keep you informed about the occurance of that
-error and about what has happened the log file is shown in that cases by invocing
-a less command.
+Sometimes it might happen that latex generates an error while processing
+your special texts. To keep you informed about the occurrence of that
+error and about what has happened, in this case the log file is shown
+by invoking a less command.
.SH "Files"
-In single layer mode for the resulting files the suffix fig is exchanged
-by pdf (rsp. eps) (i.e. foo.fig -> foo.pdf).
+In single layer mode for the resulting files the suffix fig is replaced
+by pdf (resp. eps) (i.e. foo.fig -> foo.pdf).
.PP
.PD 0
-In multilayer mode the base name of the source fig files is extendet by '_<range>' and
-the suffix is set to pdf (rsp. eps).
+In multilayer mode the base name of the source fig files is extended
+by '-<range>' and the suffix is set to pdf (resp. eps).
.PP
-(i.e. foo.fig -> foo-0.pdf, foo-1.pdf, foo-2.pdf, ...
+(i.e., foo.fig -> foo-0.pdf, foo-1.pdf, foo-2.pdf, ...
.PP
- or foo.fig -> foo.page0.pdf, foo.page1.pdf, foo.page2.pdf, ...
+ or foo.fig -> foo.page0.pdf, foo.page1.pdf, foo.page2.pdf, ...
.PP
- if option \fB\-G\fR is set).
+ if the option \fB\-G\fR is set).
.PD
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR xfig(1)
