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[groff] 01/01: Fix bad grammar "allows <infinitive>".


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 01/01: Fix bad grammar "allows <infinitive>".
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 15:33:38 -0400 (EDT)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 389358ea5a250bb3ac0ef631e81334c961b089a7
Author: G. Branden Robinson <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Oct 22 15:24:58 2017 -0400

    Fix bad grammar "allows <infinitive>".
    
    I corrected all occurences of this Denglish construction I could find.
    In standard English, the verb "allows" can never take an infinitive as
    its _direct_ object.  Fortunately, there are many alternatives available
    to the recaster.
    
    See, e.g., <https://english.stackexchange.com/a/85080> et seq.
    
    Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <address@hidden>
---
 contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man         |  4 ++--
 contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man     |  2 +-
 contrib/groffer/groffer.1.man     |  4 ++--
 doc/groff.texi                    | 10 +++++-----
 doc/webpage.ms                    |  2 +-
 man/groff.7.man                   |  2 +-
 man/groff_diff.7.man              |  4 ++--
 man/groff_out.5.man               |  4 ++--
 src/preproc/preconv/preconv.1.man |  2 +-
 src/roff/groff/groff.1.man        |  4 ++--
 10 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man b/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man
index 6cc949e..c0b7697 100644
--- a/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man
+++ b/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ The license text is available in the internet at
 This is a preprocesor for
 .BR \%groff (@MAN1EXT@).
 .
-It allows to add
+It allows the use of
 .BR perl (7)
-code into
+code in
 .BR groff (7)
 files.
 .
diff --git a/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man b/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
index 0ed2d07..91c0935 100644
--- a/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
+++ b/contrib/gpinyin/gpinyin.1.man
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ This file was written by Bernd Warken <address@hidden>.
 This is a preprocesor for
 .BR \%groff (@MAN1EXT@).
 .
-It allows to add the Chinese European-like language
+It allows use of the Chinese European-like language
 .I Pinyin
 into
 .BR groff (7)
diff --git a/contrib/groffer/groffer.1.man b/contrib/groffer/groffer.1.man
index 3054acd..946c777 100644
--- a/contrib/groffer/groffer.1.man
+++ b/contrib/groffer/groffer.1.man
@@ -1853,7 +1853,7 @@ This can optionally be followed by a string, the so-called
 .IR extension .
 The
 .I extension
-allows to store several
+allows the storage of several
 .I man\~pages
 with the same name in the same
 .IR section .
@@ -2113,7 +2113,7 @@ in a dvi viewer program
 The
 .I \%pdf\~mode
 has a major advantage \(em it is the only graphical display mode that
-allows to search for text within the viewer; this can be a really
+allows searching for text within the viewer; this can be a really
 important feature.
 .
 Unfortunately, it takes some time to transform the input into the PDF
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi b/doc/groff.texi
index 98d1f17..88e5248 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi
+++ b/doc/groff.texi
@@ -5614,7 +5614,7 @@ request), and set address@hidden otherwise.
 
 @cindex modifying requests
 @cindex requests, modifying
-This allows to reliably modify requests.
+This allows reliable modification of requests.
 
 @Example
 .als bp*orig bp
@@ -15833,10 +15833,10 @@ newline character.
 
 The normal commands, those for positioning and text, consist of a single
 letter taking a fixed number of arguments.  For historical reasons, the
-parser allows to stack such commands on the same line, but fortunately,
-in @code{gtroff}'s intermediate output, every command with at least one
-argument is followed by a line break, thus providing excellent
-readability.
+parser allows stacking of such commands on the same line, but
+fortunately, in @code{gtroff}'s intermediate output, every command with
+at least one argument is followed by a line break, thus providing
+excellent readability.
 
 The other commands -- those for drawing and device controlling -- have a
 more complicated structure; some recognize long command names, and some
diff --git a/doc/webpage.ms b/doc/webpage.ms
index 2c75858..2bf6ee0 100644
--- a/doc/webpage.ms
+++ b/doc/webpage.ms
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ equivalents to the \eX and \eY escapes, respectively.
 .LI
 A new read-only number register `.br' is available which is set to\~1
 if a macro is called as .foo and to\~0 if called as 'foo.
-This allows to reliably modify requests.
+This allows reliable modification of requests.
 
 .in 2m
 .nf
diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 620c6d0..b35e1ec 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -3569,7 +3569,7 @@ Plus-minus sign
 .
 There is the extended escape
 .B u
-that allows to include all available Unicode characters into some
+that allows the inclusion of all available Unicode characters into some
 .I roff
 file.
 .
diff --git a/man/groff_diff.7.man b/man/groff_diff.7.man
index 497610d..a38554c 100644
--- a/man/groff_diff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_diff.7.man
@@ -2686,7 +2686,7 @@ Within a macro call, it is set to\~1 if the macro is 
called with the
 \[oq]normal\[cq] control character (\[oq].\[cq] by default), and set
 to\~0 otherwise.
 .
-This allows to reliably modify requests.
+This allows the reliable modification of requests.
 .
 .RS
 .IP
@@ -3678,7 +3678,7 @@ for groff.
 .I groff
 provides a
 .B compatibility mode
-that allows to process roff code written for classical
+that allows the processing of roff code written for classical
 .B troff
 or for other implementations of roff in a consistent way.
 .
diff --git a/man/groff_out.5.man b/man/groff_out.5.man
index 994ed72..3f2f082 100644
--- a/man/groff_out.5.man
+++ b/man/groff_out.5.man
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ that is optionally followed by a comment, and a newline 
character.
 The normal commands, those for positioning and text, consist of a
 single letter taking a fixed number of arguments.
 .
-For historical reasons, the parser allows to stack such commands on
+For historical reasons, the parser allows stacking of such commands on
 the same line, but fortunately, in
 .I groff intermediate
 .IR output ,
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ Draw a solid circle using the current fill color with 
diameter\~\c
 with leftmost point at the current position; then move the current
 position to the rightmost point of the circle.
 .
-An optional second integer argument is ignored (this allows to the
+An optional second integer argument is ignored (this allows the
 formatter to generate an even number of arguments).
 .
 This command is a
diff --git a/src/preproc/preconv/preconv.1.man 
b/src/preproc/preconv/preconv.1.man
index 70ae3c3..5e3b875 100644
--- a/src/preproc/preconv/preconv.1.man
+++ b/src/preproc/preconv/preconv.1.man
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ The Unicode Standard defines character U+FEFF as the Byte 
Order Mark
 On the other hand, value U+FFFE is guaranteed not be a Unicode character at
 all.
 .
-This allows to detect the byte order within the data stream (either
+This allows detection of the byte order within the data stream (either
 big-endian or lower-endian), and the MIME encodings \%\[oq]UTF-16\[cq]
 and \%\[oq]UTF-32\[cq] mandate that the data stream starts with U+FEFF.
 .
diff --git a/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man b/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
index 192e732..62fb40e 100644
--- a/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
+++ b/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ but adds many extensions.
 .P
 The
 .B groff
-program allows to control the whole
+program allows control of the whole
 .I groff
 system by command line options.
 .
@@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ program is a wrapper around the
 .BR @address@hidden (@MAN1EXT@)
 program.
 .
-It allows to specify the preprocessors by command line options and
+It allows one to specify the preprocessors by command line options and
 automatically runs the postprocessor that is appropriate for the
 selected device.
 .



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