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24.0.50; manual typos

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From: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.50; manual typos
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:41:35 -0400

(info "(emacs) Mode Line")

The third-to-last paragraph, has `through' instead of `though'.

(info "(emacs) Repeating")

Maybe it's my limited imagination, but

To repeat the command more than once, type additional `z''s: each

          ^^^^^^
... has never looked right.  `z's' maybe?

(info "(emacs) Minibuffer Edit")

`accomodate' should be `accommodate'.

Message #10 received at 8486-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8486-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8486: 24.0.50; manual typos
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:07:37 +0200

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:41, Sean Sieger <sean.sieger <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> The third-to-last paragraph, has `through' instead of `though'.

> `accomodate' should be `accommodate'.

Thanks, I've fixed these (and several more instances of "accomodate")
on the emacs-23 branch, and a few additional ones on the trunk.

> To repeat the command more than once, type additional `z''s: each
>
>          ^^^^^^
> ... has never looked right.  `z's' maybe?

Ugly, perhaps, but that's not a typo, isn't it?

    Juanma

Message #13 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8486: 24.0.50; manual typos
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:42:28 -0400

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> wrote:

>> To repeat the command more than once, type additional `z''s: each
>>
>>          ^^^^^^
>> ... has never looked right.  `z's' maybe?
>
> Ugly, perhaps, but that's not a typo, isn't it?

Maybe not.  Maybe I didn't mean to type `z's', but rather, `z's, yes, my
guess, Juanma, is that /a/ single-quoted z is rendered thusly:  `z', and
that more than one single-quoted z, `z's.  (The closing single quote looks
like it wants to indicate contraction, say, ``The single-quoted z is getting
the best of me,'' but it isn't---not with that opening single quote.)

[I see that you've closed this bug.]

Thanks for making the corrections.

Message #16 received at 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8486: 24.0.50; manual typos
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:34:13 -0400

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:07:37 +0200
> Cc: 8486-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > To repeat the command more than once, type additional `z''s: each
> >
> >          ^^^^^^
> > ... has never looked right.  `z's' maybe?
> 
> Ugly, perhaps, but that's not a typo, isn't it?

Sort of.  It comes from the use of @samp{z}'s or similar in Texinfo.
The important part is that this looks right in the printed version of
the manual; the emulation we do in Info is less important.  So if the
Texinfo source uses @code{s} or @kbd{s} or anything but @samp, leave
the apostrophe alone; if it uses @samp, remove the apostrophe.  That's
because @samp produces single quotes in the printed copy as well,
while the others don't.

Message #19 received at 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8486: 24.0.50; manual typos
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:44:48 +0200

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 15:34, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> So if the
> Texinfo source uses @code{s} or @kbd{s} or anything but @samp, leave
> the apostrophe alone; if it uses @samp, remove the apostrophe.

In that particular case, it is @kbd{z}:

  To repeat the command more than once, type additional @kbd{z}'s: each

    Juanma

Message #22 received at 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8486: 24.0.50; manual typos
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:08:46 +0300

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:44:48 +0200
> Cc: 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>   To repeat the command more than once, type additional @kbd{z}'s: each

So we should leave the apostrophe alone and live with a bit of
ugliness in the Info manual.

Message #25 received at 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8486: 24.0.50; manual typos
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:18:53 +0200

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 19:08, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> So we should leave the apostrophe alone and live with a bit of
> ugliness in the Info manual.

And so I did. The bug is already closed.

    Juanma

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