From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: TonyMc Subject: Some documentation suggestions Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:01:15 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVPaQ-0008Up-Mv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:36:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVPaK-0005GI-C1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:36:14 -0400 Received: from smtpout05.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk ([65.20.0.125]:27085) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVPaK-0005G2-0i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:36:08 -0400 Received: from Ilian (81.151.48.46) by smtpout05.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (8.6.100.09) (authenticated as mcclel) id 52591D850017F790 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:01:13 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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-<>" -> "S-" 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"