WineHQ: Assorted spelling fixes
Francois Gouget
fgouget at free.fr
Tue Sep 14 05:57:59 CDT 2004
Changelog:
* wwn/wn20040514_222.xml
wwn/wn20040910_239.xml
Assorted spelling fixes
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Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/
145 = 1! + 4! + 5!
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retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 wn20040514_222.xml
--- wwn/wn20040514_222.xml 20 May 2004 15:44:03 -0000 1.4
+++ wwn/wn20040514_222.xml 14 Sep 2004 10:15:02 -0000
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
Lotus Notes has long been on the wish list and happens to have the
<a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=158">highest
bounty</a> in CodeWeaver's Compatibility Center. While not officially
-supported, there are reports that Microsoft Money and Framemaker have also
+supported, there are reports that Microsoft Money and FrameMaker have also
seen dramatic improvements. </p><p>
Besides new applications,
CodeWeavers has dramatically changed the product by combining all of
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@
</p><p>
A process, when it hits Copy (SetClipboardData) registers that it owns
the clipboard. When another program hits paste, only then is the data
-transfered between the processes. It is this way to support content
+transferred between the processes. It is this way to support content
negotiation... where the data that gets copied or pasted might be a
different format depending on where you paste it. Plain text, HTML, RTF,
etc.
Index: wwn/wn20040910_239.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvs/lostwages/wwn/wn20040910_239.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 wn20040910_239.xml
--- wwn/wn20040910_239.xml 10 Sep 2004 02:19:46 -0000 1.1
+++ wwn/wn20040910_239.xml 14 Sep 2004 10:51:26 -0000
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
<quote who="Mike Hearn">
- <h2> 5 minute intro to Wine development </h2>
+ <h2> 5 minutes intro to Wine development </h2>
<p>
This is a quick collection of tips and tricks that may be useful
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
A great reference is the Wine Developer Guide, which goes into
far more depth than this document will, especially about the
architecture of Wine and information on the individual
- components. However, if you want a 5 minute getting started
+ components. However, if you want a 5 minutes getting started
guide, this is it.
</p>
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
signals are converted into SEH exceptions by Wine and you can
watch their propogation 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 0xC0000005 which is the closest
equivalent in Win32 to a segfault. You may also see codes
which don't appear in the headers, these are typically
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
+snoop : This does the same thing as relay but works between
two native DLLs. The information produced by this channel is
not as good as relay data, as there is no information on the
- parameters used. Snoop inspects the stack and disassemblies
+ parameters used. Snoop inspects the stack and disassembles
function prologues to try and guess what the parameters are,
and so may destabilise the application.
</li>
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
trashing can be caused by a number of things, the most common
is Wine overrunning an internal buffer. Most new Wine code
uses the HeapAlloc/HeapFree APIs internally, and one of the reasons
- is that Wines built inheap debugging is so useful.
+ is that Wine's builtin heap debugging is so useful.
</li>
<li>
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@
</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
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
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
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@
<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 legal for wide strings to have null
bytes in them.
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@
<h3> Common problems </h3>
<p> Some bugs are easier to fix than others. Here is a quick list
- of the more persistant ones so you know what you're getting into:
+ of the more persistent ones so you know what you're getting into:
<ul>
<li>
@@ -852,13 +852,13 @@
don't modify DestroyMenu NOW, there's also a good chance that this bug
will never be fixed. Remember, a lot of Delphi applications don't work
because of this bug which is simple to fix and breaks only one single
- testcase. Is is really more important that WINE passes this test but
+ testcase. Is it really more important that WINE passes this test but
fails on Delphi apps again and again? What will the users of WINE think?
</p><p>
To fix it properly, we have to move the menu code to WineServer. When
will this happen? In a year? In two years? Never? Until then, many
Delphi apps won't work. For me, this is not acceptable.
-</p>></quote>
+</p></quote>
<p>Uwe Bonnes suggested adding another test for the behavior Michael
was fixing:</p>
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@
This is all part of figuring out the cost and the benefit. In this case,
I have no idea what he will think. Alexandre does tend to be
-conservative - ie dropping patches he isn't sure about rather than
+conservative - i.e. dropping patches he isn't sure about rather than
accept them and hoping for the best.
</p><p>
Wine has been around for a very long time, and correctness is very
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@
comment on whether the patch should go in or not. I think given how
popular Delphi is for writing apps the cost of not including it is quite
high but if the fix is clearly going to cause problems then we have no
-choice but to wait for Ulrichs menu->wineserver patch.
+choice but to wait for Ulrich's menu->wineserver patch.
</p><p>
So hopefully you understand better the factors that go into these
decisions. I know what you must be thinking, I've been there before with
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@
<p>Mike alluded to some work that Ulrich Czekalla has done that
changes how menus are handled. Alexandre felt that work was the
-proper direction and it was the only way to handle the sitation,
+proper direction and it was the only way to handle the situation,
<quote who="Alexandre Julliard">
There have been a number of similar hacks done in
the menu code already, but they all had to be removed because they
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