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[gnuastro-commits] master 8a4bf6f8: Book and NEWS: minor typos corrected


From: Mohammad Akhlaghi
Subject: [gnuastro-commits] master 8a4bf6f8: Book and NEWS: minor typos corrected
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:15:33 -0400 (EDT)

branch: master
commit 8a4bf6f8d9d8d515bfa039b9e8bd52e4fca82f46
Author: Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>
Commit: Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>

    Book and NEWS: minor typos corrected
    
    Until now, there were two minor typos in these that were reported by
    Antonio Diaz Diaz.
    
    With this commit, they have been fixed.
---
 NEWS                         | 2 +-
 doc/announce-acknowledge.txt | 1 +
 doc/gnuastro.texi            | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3d9c6f83..0fc7c271 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 *** Library
 
-  - speclines.h: marcos specifying spectral lines have been corrected to
+  - speclines.h: macros specifying spectral lines have been corrected to
     round wavelengths to nearest integer (see description of changes in
     CosmicCalculator). For example the old 'GAL_SPECLINES_O_III_5006' is
     now called 'GAL_SPECLINES_O_III_5007'.
diff --git a/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt b/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt
index bf7b9d63..0e0ae376 100644
--- a/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt
+++ b/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Alphabetically ordered list to acknowledge in the next release.
 
+Antonio Diaz Diaz
 
 
 
diff --git a/doc/gnuastro.texi b/doc/gnuastro.texi
index 6c80d109..7823fb68 100644
--- a/doc/gnuastro.texi
+++ b/doc/gnuastro.texi
@@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@ For more on this, please see Akhlaghi et al. 
@url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.030
 @cindex Ken Thomson
 @cindex Stroustrup, Bjarne
 Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of the C++ language) says: ``@emph{Without 
understanding software, you are reduced to believing in magic}''.
-Ken Thomson (the designer or the Unix operating system) says ``@emph{I abhor a 
system designed for the `user' if that word is a coded pejorative meaning 
`stupid and unsophisticated'}.'' Certainly no scientist (user of a scientific 
software) would want to be considered a believer in magic, or stupid and 
unsophisticated.
+Ken Thomson (the designer of the Unix operating system) says ``@emph{I abhor a 
system designed for the `user' if that word is a coded pejorative meaning 
`stupid and unsophisticated'}.'' Certainly no scientist (user of a scientific 
software) would want to be considered a believer in magic, or stupid and 
unsophisticated.
 
 This can happen when scientists get too distant from the raw data and methods, 
and are mainly discussing results.
 In other words, when they feel they have tamed Nature into their own 
high-level (abstract) models (creations), and are mainly concerned with scaling 
up, or industrializing those results.



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