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G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[groff] 40/47: doc/automake.mom: Fix style nits. |
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Tue, 11 Jan 2022 06:33:21 -0500 (EST) |
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.
commit 6dec13e327fae255ebfdbc145a67302897bc3ce8
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 11 20:09:57 2022 +1100
doc/automake.mom: Fix style nits.
* Correct missing plural.
* End sentence not with "etc." but with "and so on".
* Perform several Kemper notectomies.
---
doc/automake.mom | 24 ++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/automake.mom b/doc/automake.mom
index 9078e84e..5dab4b04 100644
--- a/doc/automake.mom
+++ b/doc/automake.mom
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ src/include/config.hin
.
.WS +2
.EW .5
-Note that aclocal.m4 is generated and the groff m4 macros are
+The file aclocal.m4 is generated and the groff m4 macros are
included via the acinclude.m4 file.
.WS DEFAULT
.EW 0
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ $ ../configure
$ make
.CODE OFF
.QUOTE OFF
-Note that parallel build is also supported and `make' can be invoked
+Parallel build is also supported: `make' can be invoked
with the -j option, which will greatly speed up the build.
.
.HEADING 2 "Automake in the autotools process"
@@ -255,10 +255,10 @@ bin_PROGRAMS += grolbp
.CODE OFF
.QUOTE OFF
This says that a program named `grolbp' is added to the list of the
-programs that should be built. Note that \*[CODE]bin_PROGRAMS\*[CODE OFF]
-is initialized to an empty string in the top-level Makefile.am,
-which includes grolbp.am. (We will see later why we don't write
-directly
+programs that should be built. The variable
+\*[CODE]bin_PROGRAMS\*[CODE OFF] is initialized to an empty string in
+the top-level Makefile.am, which includes grolbp.am. (We will see later
+why we don't write directly
\*[CODE]bin_PROGRAMS\~=\~grolbp\*[CODE OFF] in a Makefile.am in the
grolbp directory.)
.PP
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ adequate `make' command. Also, the source files listed in
the distribution tarball. That is why the headers are also listed
in \*[CODE]grolbp_SOURCES\*[CODE OFF]: it is not necessary to add
them in order to correctly build `grolbp', but this way the headers
-will be distributed. Note that:
+will be distributed.
.
.SP 3p
.QUAD LEFT
@@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ pdfmom: $(gropdf_dir)/pdfmom.pl $(SH_DEPS_SED_SCRIPT)
.QUOTE OFF
.QUOTE_INDENT 2m
.CODE_SIZE 100
-Note that in this example the `@' symbol is protected by square
-brackets to prevent the substitution of the variable by `automake'.
+In this example, the `@' symbol is protected by square brackets to
+prevent the substitution of the variable by `automake'.
.
.HEADING 1 "Non-recursive make schema"
.
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ A top level Makefile.am includes another Makefile.am, using
the
sub-directory lists the programs that should be built. If we had
chosen this type of organization, we would have a Makefile.am in
src/devices/grolbp and in each directory that contain sources to
-build a program (tbl, eqn, troff etc ...). We would write in the
+build a program (tbl, eqn, troff, and so on). We would write in the
top-level Makefile.am:
.QUOTE
.IL
@@ -588,8 +588,8 @@ devX100fontdir = $(fontdir)/devX100
.QUOTE OFF
Because we declared a variable ending with `dir', we are allowed
to define \*[CODE]devX100font_DATA\*[CODE OFF] (you remove the
-`dir' suffix and add \*[CODE]_DATA\*[CODE OFF]). Note that
-wildcards are not supported in the special variable that end with
+`dir' suffix and add \*[CODE]_DATA\*[CODE OFF]). Wildcards are not
+supported in the special variables that end with
\*[CODE]_DATA\*[CODE OFF]\&.
.PP
With these two lines, `make install' will install the files
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