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21 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Kerrisk 5fab2e7c9c Changes.old, clone.2, execve.2, fcntl.2, futex.2, getitimer.2, getpriority.2, mmap.2, mount.2, mprotect.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, setuid.2, sigaltstack.2, vfork.2, div.3, fenv.3, fmod.3, memchr.3, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, queue.3, scanf.3, trunc.3, st.4, proc.5, services.5, utmp.5, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, feature_test_macros.7, futex.7, glob.7, man.7, netlink.7, unicode.7: Switch to American usage: "-wards" ==> "-ward"
American English uses "afterward" in preference to "afterwards",
and so on

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-26 07:34:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ae03dc6613 getaddrinfo.3, setlocale.3, strchr.3, wctob.3, st.4, glob.7, locale.7, regex.7, standards.7, unicode.7, utf-8.7: Global fix: s/multi-/multi/
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "multi-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 18:47:55 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c45660d7d7 wrap long source lines 2008-06-09 21:12:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 333a424b0e Try and bring some consistency to quotes. 2008-06-09 21:03:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26868e5b26 s/`/\`/ for backquotes used in command substitution, for
proper rendering in UTF-8.
2008-06-05 12:26:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ac6b609856 Updated FIXME 2007-10-16 06:22:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 097585edcb ffix 2007-06-22 20:40:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1274071a69 ffix 2007-06-22 18:25:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1ce284ecb0 Reformatted headings 2007-06-15 19:55:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75b94dc35c Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ".
Change "i.e. " to i.e.., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
2007-06-08 11:56:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9bfdb9c21 Convert to American spelling conventions 2007-06-08 09:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9044f1b87e Added FIXME 2007-05-21 16:28:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 69289f8a29 Fix inconsistencies in .TH line 2007-05-18 10:09:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c13182efa3 Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing
white space.
2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7295b7eda0 Replaced tabs with spaces 2007-04-05 13:29:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf0a9ace57 ffix 2007-04-05 12:36:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4dec66f990 Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:58:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2bc2f4798f hyphen/dash fixes 2005-07-06 12:57:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d9b698450 Hyphenation/dash fixes 2005-07-06 07:41:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9fdfa163e5 Typos fixes from A Costa (16 May 05, Debian "manpages"). 2005-06-24 14:17:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fea681dafb Import of man-pages 1.70 2004-11-03 13:51:07 +00:00