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[groff] 40/47: doc/automake.mom: Fix style nits.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 40/47: doc/automake.mom: Fix style nits.
Date: 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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