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Changes to m4/doc/m4.texinfo,v


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Changes to m4/doc/m4.texinfo,v
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:53:28 +0000

CVSROOT:        /sources/m4
Module name:    m4
Changes by:     Eric Blake <ericb>      06/12/09 16:53:28

Index: doc/m4.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/doc/m4.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.81
retrieving revision 1.82
diff -u -b -r1.81 -r1.82
--- doc/m4.texinfo      4 Dec 2006 13:57:22 -0000       1.81
+++ doc/m4.texinfo      9 Dec 2006 16:53:28 -0000       1.82
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@
 Originally, the Kernighan and Plauger macro-processor, and then
 @code{m3}, formed the engine for the Rational FORTRAN preprocessor,
 that is, the @code{Ratfor} equivalent of @code{cpp}.  Later, @code{m4}
-was used as a frontend for @code{Ratfor}, @code{C} and @code{Cobol}.
+was used as a front-end for @code{Ratfor}, @code{C} and @code{Cobol}.
 
 Ren@'e Seindal released his implementation of @code{m4}, @acronym{GNU}
 @code{m4},
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@
 missing optional argument than for an explicit empty string.  If there
 are too many arguments, the excess arguments are ignored.  Unquoted
 leading whitespace is stripped off all arguments, but whitespace
-generated by a macro expansion or occuring after a macro that expanded
+generated by a macro expansion or occurring after a macro that expanded
 to an empty string remains intact.  Whitespace includes space, tab,
 newline, carriage return, vertical tab, and formfeed.
 
@@ -2725,7 +2725,7 @@
 examine the implementation.  Note that @code{quote} and
 @code{dquote_elt} make decisions based on their number of arguments, so
 that when called without arguments, they result in nothing instead of a
-quoted empty string; this is so that it is possible to distinquish
+quoted empty string; this is so that it is possible to distinguish
 between no arguments and an empty first argument.  @code{dquote}, on the
 other hand, results in a string no matter what, since it is still
 possible to tell whether it was invoked without arguments based on the
@@ -4427,10 +4427,10 @@
 divert(`1')`diverted text.'
 divert
 @result{}
-m4wrap(`Wrapped text preceeds ')
+m4wrap(`Wrapped text precedes ')
 @result{}
 ^D
address@hidden TEXT preceeds diverted text.
address@hidden TEXT precedes diverted text.
 @end example
 
 If output is diverted to a negative diversion, it is simply discarded.
@@ -4861,21 +4861,21 @@
 @node Standard Modules
 @section Standard bundled modules
 
-GNU @code{m4} ships with several bundled modules as standard.  By
-convention these modules define a text macro that can be tested with
address@hidden when they have loaded.
address@hidden @code{m4} ships with several bundled modules as standard.
+By convention these modules define a text macro that can be tested with
address@hidden when they have loaded.
 
 @table @code
 @item m4
 Provides all of the builtins defined by System V @code{m4}.  This module
-is always loaded -- GNU m4 would only be a very slow version of
address@hidden without the builtins supplied by this module.
+is always loaded -- @acronym{GNU} @code{m4} would only be a very slow
+version of @samp{cat} without the builtins supplied by this module.
 
 @item gnu
-Provides all of the GNU extensions, as defined by GNU @code{m4} upto
-release 1.4.  In addition to the @samp{__gnu__} text macro, this module
-also defines either @samp{__unix__} or @samp{__windows__} as
-appropriate, and the following:
+Provides all of the @acronym{GNU} extensions, as defined by
address@hidden M4 through the 1.4.x release series.  In addition to the
address@hidden text macro, this module also defines either
address@hidden or @samp{__windows__} as appropriate, and the following:
 
 @deffn {Macro (gnu)} __m4_version__
 This macro expand to the release version number of the running GNU




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