From: Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com>
To: TonyMc <afmcc@btinternet.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some documentation suggestions
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:19:16 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwmcwj77.fsf@noman.maa.corp.collab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9kl591qf25p4pcr4beoskfgb8qpb23j20@4ax.com> (TonyMc's message of "Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:01:15 +0100")
TonyMc <afmcc@btinternet.com> writes:
> 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"
Thank you Tony!
I will submit a patch. Right now working on this.
Thanks and Regards
Noorul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-14 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-13 17:01 Some documentation suggestions TonyMc
2013-10-14 4:49 ` Noorul Islam K M [this message]
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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