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typos (and other bugs) in Org mode's doc (in v23.0.6) (9)

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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik <at> science.uva.nl>
To: Bastien <bastienguerry <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: Peter Tury <tury.peter <at> gmail.com>, 1944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, Carsten Dominik <dominik <at> science.uva.nl>
Subject: bug#1944: typos (and other bugs) in Org mode's doc (in v23.0.6) (9)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:46:47 +0100

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On Jan 18, 2009, at 1:57 AM, Bastien wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter Tury <tury.peter <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> in (info "(org) Remember templates") 'fo' is written instead of  
>> 'for'(?):
>> "and exclude templates fo which this condition is not fulfilled"
>
> Fixed.
>
>> 2)
>> in (info "(org) Agenda commands") 'where' is written instead of  
>> 'were' in
>> "In Logbook mode, entries that where marked DONE while logging was on
>> (variable `org-log-done') are shown in the agenda, as are entries  
>> that
>> have been clocked on that day."
>
> Fixed.
>
>> 3)
>> in the same node (=Agenda commands) the word 'archieved'(?) is  
>> missing -- maybe:
>> "In archives mode, trees that are marked [archieved?] are also  
>> scanned
>> when producing the agenda."
>
> Fixed.  Carsten, can you double-check this?
>
>> 4)
>> in (info "(org) Categories") this sentence is wrong -- maybe; at  
>> least
>> I can't interpret it...:
>> "If you would like to have a special CATEGORY for a single entry or a
>> (sub)tree, give the entry a `:CATEGORY:' property with the location  
>> as
>> the value."
>>
>> It might be better this way:
>> "If you would like to have a special CATEGORY for a single entry or a
>> (sub)tree, give the entry/(sub)tree a `:CATEGORY:' property with the
>> special CATEGORY you want to apply as the value."??
>
> Mmhh...   not sure the second version is clearer.  I find the first  
> one
> quite all right.   Carsten.

Hi Bastien and Peter,  I think it must be a mix:

"If you would like to have a special CATEGORY for a single entry or a
(sub)tree, give the entry a `:CATEGORY:' property with the
special category you want to apply as the value."

Will you make this fix, Bastien?


>
>
>> 5)
>> (info "(org) Agenda commands") does not mention iCalendar (.ics)
>> possibility at exporting (C-x C-w) -- contrary to (info "(org)
>> Exporting Agenda Views"). I suggest not to detail exporting in  
>> "Agenda
>> commands": just put a link to the node "Exporting Agenda Views"
>> instead.
>
> In the git version of Org, C-x C-w is mentionned.
>
>> 6)
>> The link http://orgmode.org/worg/code/org-info-js/org-info.js.html in
>> (info "(org) Javascript support") does not work for me now.
>
> Fixed.
>
>> 7)
>> I am not sure if this is a bug in Org's doc or (Info of) Emacs 23 or
>> Ubuntu (8.10) or what, but the headline of (info "(org) Extensions")
>> looks like this for me:
>>
>> F\303\274ggel\303\251k: A Extensions
>> ************************
>>
>> The first word tries to be in Hungarian (=my language in Ubuntu) and
>> should look like this: "Függelék". In fact, if I copy-paste it here,
>> it arrives in a good form into my Firefox (gmail), so those  
>> char.codes
>> work somehow...
>>
>> (Naturally(?) the same problem comes for (info "(org) Hacking").)
>
> Can't reproduce this...

Me neither.

Thanks for the feedback.

- Carsten


>
>
>> 8)
>> Line breaking is wrong in (info "(org) Extensions in the contrib
>> directory"). It seems as if its source would have been indented
>> manually for lines with different length: they contain "       "
>> inside lines. Here is an example, but please note that this node
>> contains a lot of other similarly wrongly formatted lines:
>>
>> `org-annotation-helper.el' by Bastien Guerry and Daniel E. German
>>     Call remember directly from Firefox/Opera, or from Adobe Reader.
>>         When activating a special link or bookmark, Emacs receives a
>>     trigger to       create a note with a link back to the website.
>>     Requires some setup, a       detailes description is in
>>     `contrib/packages/org-annotation-helper'.
>
> Fixed.
>
>> 9)
>> (info "(org) Other extensions") looks funny :-)
>
> I guess it's a feature, not a bug :)
>
>> Thanks for org-mode anyway,
>
> You own this to Carsten!
>
> Thanks very much for the careful feedback,
>
> -- 
> Bastien

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