Re: [PATCH] doc: Improve wording and fix typos in "Introduction" and "Requirements".

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis:

> Is it possible to use ’ instead of ' for the apostrophe and keep the
> source in ASCII?

There’s a contradiction: ’ is not ASCII.

But anyway, the normal way to use Texinfo is like TeX: you use ASCII
quotes, and it does the right thing (see the PDF output, and the Info
output if you’re using makeinfo 5.x.)

> From 3384e3e2e00d3cbef37b913c9a17df5842522ef8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 12:02:15 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Improve wording and fix typos in "Introduction" and
>  "Requirements".
>
> * doc/guix.texi (Introduction, Requirements): Rephrase and fix typos.
> ---
>  doc/guix.texi |   66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
>  1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index c3aab81..9a12ff9 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -96,42 +96,39 @@ Documentation License.''
>  GNU address@hidden'' is pronounced like ``geeks'', or ``ɡiːks''
>  using the international phonetic alphabet (IPA).} is a functional
>  package management tool for the GNU system.  Package management consists
> -in all the activities that relate to building packages from source,
> -honoring the build-time and run-time dependencies on packages,
> -installing packages in user environments, upgrading installed packages
> -to new versions or rolling back to a previous set, removing unused
> -software packages, etc.
> +of all activities that relate to building packages from sources,
> +preserving their build-time and run-time dependencies, installing
> +packages in user environments, upgrading installed packages to new
> +versions or rolling back to a previous set, removing unused software
> +packages, etc.

There seems to be some paragraph filling at least here.

Could you rearrange the patch to avoid paragraph filling, so that only
the parts that were really changed show up?

Thanks for looking into this!

Ludo’.