[PATCH] more typo/grammar fixes in documentation

[William Pursell]

diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index cbb7d5a..9166754 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -11122,7 +11122,7 @@ Autoconf two years before you can guess the rest.
 Several commits follow, and by the end of the day Automake is
 reported to work for GNU fileutils and GNU m4.

-The modus operandi is the one that is still used today: variables
+The modus operandi is the one that is still used today: variable
 assignments in @file{Makefile.am} files trigger injections of
 precanned @file{Makefile} fragments into the generated
 @file{Makefile.in}.  The use of @file{Makefile} fragments was inspired
@@ -11305,7 +11305,7 @@ that have been sending fixes.

 Automake starts scanning @file{configure.in} for @code{LIBOBJS}
 support.  This is an important step because until this version
-Automake did only know about the @file{Makefile.am}s it processed.
+Automake only knew about the @file{Makefile.am}s it processed.
 @file{configure.in} was Autoconf's world and the link between Autoconf
 and Automake had to be done by the @file{Makefile.am} author.  For
 instance, if @file{config.h} was generated by @file{configure}, it was the
@@ -11448,7 +11448,7 @@ stalled, Automake also becomes a kind of repository for 
such
 third-party macros, even macros completely unrelated to Automake (for
 instance macros that fix broken Autoconf macros).

-The 1.2 release contains 20 macros, among which the
+The 1.2 release contains 20 macros, including the
 @code{AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE} macro that simplifies the creation of
 @file{configure.in}.

@@ -11479,7 +11479,7 @@ plus 1294 lines of @file{Makefile} fragments.
 @item 1998-04-05 Automake 1.3

 This is a small advance compared to 1.2.
-It add support for assembly, and preliminary support for Java.
+It adds support for assembly, and preliminary support for Java.

 Perl 5.004_04 is out, but fixes to support Perl 4 are still
 regularly submitted whenever Automake breaks it.
@@ -11489,7 +11489,7 @@ regularly submitted whenever Automake breaks it.
 Sourceware was setup by Jason Molenda to host open source projects.

 @item 1998-09-19  Automake CVS repository moved to @code{sourceware.cygnus.com}
address@hidden 1998-10-26  @code{sourceware.cygnus.com} announces it hosts 
Automake
address@hidden 1998-10-26  @code{sourceware.cygnus.com} announces it hosts 
Automake:
 Automake is now hosted on @code{sourceware.cygnus.com}.  It has a
 publicly accessible CVS repository.  This CVS repository is a copy of
 the one Tom was using on his machine, which in turn is based on
@@ -11504,7 +11504,7 @@ announcement that @command{automake} and 
@command{autoconf} had joined
 @command{sourceware} was made on 1998-10-26.  They were among the
 first projects to be hosted there.

-The heedful reader will have noticed Automake was exactly 4-year-old
+The heedful reader will have noticed Automake was exactly 4-years-old
 on 1998-09-19.

 @item 1999-01-05 Ben Elliston releases Autoconf 2.13.
@@ -11515,7 +11515,7 @@ This release adds support for Fortran 77 and for the 
@code{include}
 statement.  Also, @samp{+=} assignments are introduced, but it is
 still quite easy to fool Automake when mixing this with conditionals.

-These two releases, Automake 1.4 and Autoconf 2.13 makes a duo that
+These two releases, Automake 1.4 and Autoconf 2.13 make a duo that
 will be used together for years.

 @command{automake} is 7228 lines, plus 1591 lines of Makefile
@@ -11583,7 +11583,7 @@ been moved :) -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
 @end quotation

 All these patches were sent to and discussed on
address@hidden@@gnu.org}, so subscribed users were literally drown in
address@hidden@@gnu.org}, so subscribed users were literally drowning in
 technical mails.  Eventually, the @email{automake-patches@@gnu.org}
 mailing list was created in May.

@@ -11669,7 +11669,7 @@ prefixes.
 @item Perl 4 support is finally dropped.
 @end itemize

-1.5 did broke several packages that worked with 1.4.  Enough so that
+1.5 did break several packages that worked with 1.4.  Enough so that
 Linux distributions could not easily install the new Automake version
 without breaking many of the packages for which they had to run
 @command{automake}.
@@ -11706,10 +11706,10 @@ scheme implies maintaining a bug-fix branch in 
addition to the
 development trunk, which means more work from the maintainer, but
 providing regular bug-fix releases proved to be really worthwhile.

-Like 1.5, 1.6 also introduced a bunch of incompatibilities, meant or
+Like 1.5, 1.6 also introduced a bunch of incompatibilities, intentional or
 not.  Perhaps the more annoying was the dependence on the newly
 released Autoconf 2.53.  Autoconf seemed to have stabilized enough
-since its explosive 2.50 release, and included changes required to fix
+since its explosive 2.50 release and included changes required to fix
 some bugs in Automake.  In order to upgrade to Automake 1.6, people
 now had to upgrade Autoconf too; for some packages it was no picnic.

@@ -11768,7 +11768,7 @@ Many bug-fix releases.  1.7 lasted because the 
development version
 Episode 49, `Repercussions', in the third season of the `Alias' TV
 show is first aired.

-Marshall, one of the character, is working on a computer virus that he
+Marshall, one of the characters, is working on a computer virus that he
 has to modify before it gets into the wrong hands or something like
 that.  The screenshots you see do not show any program code, they show
 a @file{Makefile.in} @code{generated by automake}...

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William Pursell