Re: Usage 1.2, Environment variables: missing conjunction?

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Federico Bruni" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user mailinglist" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 7:29 AM
Subject: Usage 1.2, Environment variables: missing conjunction?


> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/usage/command_002dline-usage#environment-variables
>
> Maybe in **this sentence** something is missing?
>
> "LILYPOND_GC_YIELD
>
>    With this variable the memory footprint and performance can be
> adjusted. **It is a percentage tunes memory management behavior**. With
> higher values, the program uses more memory, with smaller values, it
> uses more CPU time. The default value is 70.
> "
>
> I mean: 'tunes' should be a verb, right?
> "The percentage tunes memory management...", if I've understood
> correctly.
>
> So it could be: "It is a percentage *that* tunes memory management
> behaviour".
> I don't know if this is good english, but I can understand it better.


What you're proposing is good English, and makes sense where the original 
did not.

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Phil Holmes