[website] Assorted spelling fixes
Frédéric Delanoy
frederic.delanoy at gmail.com
Wed May 2 19:11:30 CDT 2012
---
templates/en/acknowledgement.template | 4 ++--
templates/en/developer-cheatsheet.template | 16 ++++++++--------
templates/en/download.template | 2 +-
templates/en/download/ubuntu.template | 2 +-
templates/en/forums.template | 2 +-
templates/en/irc.template | 2 +-
templates/en/why.template | 4 ++--
templates/en/winelib.template | 6 +++---
8 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/templates/en/acknowledgement.template b/templates/en/acknowledgement.template
index 4399145..9662286 100644
--- a/templates/en/acknowledgement.template
+++ b/templates/en/acknowledgement.template
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ enough to have paid staff tackling tough problems.. we are.</p>
<tr><td>Francis Beaudet</td> <td>controls</td> <td>1998-2000</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dave Belanger</td> <td>fonts</td> <td>2003-2004</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maxime Bellangé</td> <td>controls</td> <td>2003-2006</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Francois Boisvert</td> <td>controls</td> <td>1998-2000</td></tr>
+<tr><td>François Boisvert</td> <td>controls</td> <td>1998-2000</td></tr>
<tr><td>Vincent Béron</td> <td>misc</td> <td>2002-2006</td></tr>
<tr><td>Uwe Bonnes</td> <td>misc</td> <td>1995-2006</td></tr>
<tr><td>Noel Borthwick</td> <td>clipboard</td> <td>1999</td></tr>
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ enough to have paid staff tackling tough problems.. we are.</p>
<tr><td>Martin Fuchs</td> <td>controls</td> <td>2000-2006</td></tr>
<tr><td>Peter Ganten</td> <td>misc</td> <td>1999-2001</td></tr>
<tr><td>Abey George</td> <td>COM/OLE & windowing</td> <td>1999-2000</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Francois Gouget</td> <td>misc</td> <td>1998-2006</td></tr>
+<tr><td>François Gouget</td> <td>misc</td> <td>1998-2006</td></tr>
<tr><td>Jon Griffiths</td> <td>misc</td> <td>2000-2006</td></tr>
<tr><td>Adam Gundy</td> <td>misc</td> <td>2003</td></tr>
<tr><td>Michael Günnewig</td> <td>multimedia</td> <td>2002-2003</td></tr>
diff --git a/templates/en/developer-cheatsheet.template b/templates/en/developer-cheatsheet.template
index 2dcfb9d..d03a3f9 100644
--- a/templates/en/developer-cheatsheet.template
+++ b/templates/en/developer-cheatsheet.template
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@
<ul>
<li><u>+seh</u> : Structured Exception Handling is invoked either when
- an application performs an illegal operation (ie crashes) or
+ an application performs an illegal operation (i.e. crashes) or
occasionally a program will throw their own exceptions. UNIX
signals are converted into SEH exceptions by Wine and you can
watch their propagation using this channel. It's handy because
often applications will trap their own crash to, for instance,
- peform an emergency save. The most common exception to watch
+ perform an emergency save. The most common exception to watch
for is STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION or <b>0xC0000005</b> which is
the closest equivalent in Win32 to a segfault. You may also
see codes which don't appear in the headers, these are
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
</li>
<li>
- If you have a Windows license (ie, if you ever bought a
+ If you have a Windows license (i.e. if you ever bought a
PC from a high street store) you can go grab native DLLs from
<a href="http://www.dll-files.com/">dll-files.com</a>. This
can also be handy if you're missing various runtime DLLs
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
map between them. Because Windows uses UCS-2 (16 bits per
character) for its Unicode strings, the functions which accept
unicode end with a W (for wide) and the ones that take
- non-unicode (ie strings encoded in whatever the current
+ non-unicode (i.e. strings encoded in whatever the current
codepage is) end in A for ANSI. In Windows the compiler can
produce unicode constant strings but unfortunately on Linux we
can't rely on gccs equivalent support, as it doesn't produce
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
<p>
Because each character now takes 2 bytes instead of 1, you
also have to use the wide equivalents of every string
- function, eg strlenW rather than strlen. Any function which
+ function, e.g. strlenW rather than strlen. Any function which
expects a null terminated string requires a wide
equivalent, as it's expected that wide strings will have null
bytes in them.
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
won't be helpful but it can prove handy when using native
DLLs. To get a backtrace use the <b>bt</b> command, to get a
backtrace of a particular thread postfix it with the thread id
- in hex, eg <b>bt 0x9</b>. You can also specify "all" instead of
+ in hex, e.g. <b>bt 0x9</b>. You can also specify "all" instead of
a thread id. </p>
<p> It supports a subset of the gdb commands. The most common
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@
%ecx. If you get a crash dereferencing the value of %ecx in a
C++ program, you might be seeing a null pointer dereference on
an object instance. This is especially likely if the offset is
- quite large, ie a crash accessing 0x36 is a pretty good
+ quite large, i.e. a crash accessing 0x36 is a pretty good
indication that it's a C++ object and not just a very large C
struct. <p> </li>
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@
NTDLL. In Windows 9x, most of the code in NTDLL is
here. The thinking behind this split was that NT would be
able to support multiple modules for different operating
- system APIs, ie there could be a POSIX module, an OS/2
+ system APIs, i.e. there could be a POSIX module, an OS/2
module, and kernel32 would be the Win32 module. In practice
Microsoft wiped out the competition so effectively that
this abstraction was never really needed or used, so today
diff --git a/templates/en/download.template b/templates/en/download.template
index 2d92f82..9bf08d3 100644
--- a/templates/en/download.template
+++ b/templates/en/download.template
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ requested in exchange for hosting the Wine web site.</p>
</td>
<td> <b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Mandriva%20Packages/">Download Mandriva packages</a></b>
- binary .rpms for Mandriva Linux 2008, 2009, and 2010. Download the 2010.2 package if your Mandriva is a 2010.2
- release, eg. 2010 Spring. Download the 2010.0 package if your Mandriva is the first 2010 release.</td>
+ release, e.g. 2010 Spring. Download the 2010.0 package if your Mandriva is the first 2010 release.</td>
<td><a href="mailto:marco at mandrivaclub.nl">Marco Meijer</a></td>
</tr>
diff --git a/templates/en/download/ubuntu.template b/templates/en/download/ubuntu.template
index 7b7b09c..862f2c0 100644
--- a/templates/en/download/ubuntu.template
+++ b/templates/en/download/ubuntu.template
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ may be useful on Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and other Ubuntu derivatives.</p>
<p><i>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa</i></p>
-<p>Then update APT's package information by running '<b>sudo apt-get
+<p>Then update APT package information by running '<b>sudo apt-get
update</b>'. You can now install Wine by typing '<b>sudo apt-get
install wine1.3</b>'.</p>
diff --git a/templates/en/forums.template b/templates/en/forums.template
index f2bd64e..6ce73ec 100644
--- a/templates/en/forums.template
+++ b/templates/en/forums.template
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Here are the most useful ones for users:</p>
Please don't create another English language Wine forum (except perhaps
a Wine area in a popular distro's main forum).
<p>
-If you know of another active Wine forum - especially a non-english one
+If you know of another active Wine forum - especially a non-English one
- please let us know so we can add it to the list.
(Email to dank at kegel.com would do.)
diff --git a/templates/en/irc.template b/templates/en/irc.template
index 8de41fd..02c373a 100644
--- a/templates/en/irc.template
+++ b/templates/en/irc.template
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Wine. You can access the chat room using an IRC program such as
<b>Channel:</b> #winehq<br>
</blockquote>
-<p>If you use Firefox or any other browser that supports IRC urls, you can
+<p>If you use Firefox or any other browser that supports IRC URLs, you can
join the chat by clicking on <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/winehq">irc://irc.freenode.net/winehq</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
diff --git a/templates/en/why.template b/templates/en/why.template
index b7397e2..b95b486 100644
--- a/templates/en/why.template
+++ b/templates/en/why.template
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ to turn to.
<h2>Large homogeneous populations are a risk to society</h2>
<p>
Another aspect is that such large homogeneous populations are dangerous
-to society. The irish learnt this the hard way when their potato crop
+to society. The Irish learnt this the hard way when their potato crop
was destroyed by a fungus, causing the <a
href="http://www.victoryseeds.com/news/irish_famine.html">1845 "Potato
Famine"</a> and killing more than a million people (about 10% of the
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ their investments in that software.
This brings us to the chicken and egg issue of Linux on the desktop.
Until Linux can provide equivalents for the above applications, its
-marketshare on the desktop will stagnate. But until the marketshare of
+market share on the desktop will stagnate. But until the market share of
Linux on the desktop rises, no vendor will develop applications for
Linux. How does one break this vicious circle?
<p>
diff --git a/templates/en/winelib.template b/templates/en/winelib.template
index 90ee874..20f85ab 100644
--- a/templates/en/winelib.template
+++ b/templates/en/winelib.template
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ make ABI_OPT_WINELIB=1<br>
<a name="openoffice"></a><h3 class=todo>OpenOffice</h3>
<p>Suggested by <a href="mailto:steven_ed4153 at yahoo.com">Steven Edwards</a>:
- <i>I have just compleated a full install of OO 1.1 under WINE. No outsite
+ <i>I have just completed a full install of OO 1.1 under WINE. No outside
packages are required to install and configure OpenOffice for Win32
under Wine. There are a few minor bugs with some of the strings in
menus but I would rate it at 99%. If anyone is interested in a good
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ make<br>
<ul>
<li> I had to uncomment <tt>PSH_WIZARD97</tt> in <tt>/wine/prsht.h</tt> (fixed by Francois)
<li> The packing pragmas looks handled by gcc-3.2.1, so we may remove all modifications made by winemaker
- <li> I had to force winnt.h to use nameless struct and unions (fixed by Dimi)
+ <li> I had to force winnt.h to use nameless structs and unions (fixed by Dimi)
<li> I added <tt>#define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK</tt> in <tt>/wine/msvcrt/errno.h</tt> (fixed by Francois)
<li> I linked _alloca() to alloca() function (fixed by Alexandre)
<li> There was a conflict on HKEY type between <tt>afxres.h</tt> and <tt>wine/windef.h</tt>
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ make<br>
</ul>
<a name="gimp"></a><h3 class=todo>Gimp</h3>
- <p>This one's a very strange case. <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">The Gimp</a> is a native
+ <p>This one is a very strange case. <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">The Gimp</a> is a native
Linux application built around the <a href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK+</a> toolkit.
It became a native Windows application by porting over the entire GTK+ toolkit, and
other supporting libraries. It would thus be quite interesting to see how it can be
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