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typos in manual


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: typos in manual
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:21:53 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-09-01)

Hello Eric,

you seem to be working on the manual in CVS HEAD again;
here's a list of remaining typos from a patch I posted a
while ago.  I've already dropped all the en_UK changes.  ;-)

Cheers,
Ralf

        * doc/m4.texinfo, tests/others.at: Fix some typos.

Index: doc/m4.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/m4/m4/doc/m4.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -r1.39 m4.texinfo
--- doc/m4.texinfo      31 Aug 2006 03:21:35 -0000      1.39
+++ doc/m4.texinfo      4 Sep 2006 16:20:39 -0000
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@
 @item --import-environment
 Imports every variable in the environment as a macro.  This is done
 before @option{-D} and @option{-U}, so they can override the
-enviroment.
+environment.
 
 @item -B @var{DIRECTORY}
 @itemx address@hidden
@@ -2472,7 +2472,7 @@
 Show the name of the current input file in each trace output line.
 
 @item l
-Show the the current input line number in each trace output line.
+Show the current input line number in each trace output line.
 
 @item p
 Print a message when a named file is found through the path search
@@ -3029,7 +3029,7 @@
 
 There is obviously an overlap with @code{changecom} and
 @code{changequote}.  Comment delimiters and quotes can now be defined in
-two different ways.  To avoid incompatibilites, if the quotes are set
+two different ways.  To avoid incompatibilities, if the quotes are set
 with @code{changequote}, all characters marked in the syntax table as
 quotes will be unmarked, leaving only one set of defined quotes as
 before.  Since the quotes are syntax attributes rather than syntax
@@ -3090,7 +3090,7 @@
 Note how it is possible to have both long and short quotes, if
 @code{changequote} is used before @code{changesyntax}.
 
-The syntax table is initialiased to be backwards compatible, so if you
+The syntax table is initialised to be backwards compatible, so if you
 never call @code{changesyntax}, nothing will have changed.
 
 Debugging output continue to use @kbd{(}, @kbd{,} and @kbd{)} to show
@@ -4780,7 +4780,7 @@
 diversion were made, and not where it was inserted again.
 
 @item
-GNU @code{m4} makes no attempt at prohiting autoreferential definitions
+GNU @code{m4} makes no attempt at prohibiting autoreferential definitions
 like:
 
 @comment ignore
Index: tests/others.at
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/m4/m4/tests/others.at,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 others.at
--- tests/others.at     22 Aug 2006 16:16:48 -0000      1.18
+++ tests/others.at     4 Sep 2006 16:20:38 -0000
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
 
 # Eh eh eh...
 # We can't embed iso8859.m4 in here since precisly this file demonstrates
-# an M4 ``bug'': it's inability to handle the NUL character.  So there
+# an M4 ``bug'': its inability to handle the NUL character.  So there
 # is no use in trying to handle it here...  Well, until autom4te provides
 # us with means to.
 




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