Hi James, I'm not sure it's really viable to try to write Texinfo in UK English (there's a hyphenation problem at least, without running TeX in some special way), but since evidently find.texi is mostly written that way now, here is a small patch to make things a little more consistent. (I don't doubt plenty of infelicities remain, this is just what I noticed in a quick look.)
Not included in this patch: all those @subsections that don't have corresponding should really be @subheadings. Or, probably better, they should get nodes, since now the nodes end up being hundreds of lines long. Sorry I can't easily deal with git and give you the patch that way, hope this is ok. Thanks, k Karl Berry <[email protected]> * find.texi (@copying): add 2011, period outside quotes. (thoughout): use UK spelling and " -- " convention. (section names): use @code where needed. --- ORIG/find.texi 2011-12-29 11:09:38.000000000 -0800 +++ find.texi 2011-12-29 11:23:41.000000000 -0800 @@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ -Copyright (C) 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, -2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, +2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -41,3 +41,3 @@ Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled -``GNU Free Documentation License.'' +``GNU Free Documentation License''. @end copying @@ -536,4 +536,4 @@ -If a pattern is a plain string---it contains no -metacharacters---@code{locate} displays all file names in the database +If a pattern is a plain string -- it contains no +metacharacters -- @code{locate} displays all file names in the database that contain that string. If a pattern contains @@ -727,3 +727,3 @@ -The following differences in behavior occur when the @samp{-L} option +The following differences in behaviour occur when the @samp{-L} option is used: @@ -2893,3 +2893,3 @@ predecessor. (The counts can be negative.) Following the count is a -null-terminated ASCII remainder---the part of the name that follows +null-terminated ASCII remainder -- the part of the name that follows the shared prefix. @@ -4035,3 +4035,3 @@ archiving program. GNU @code{tar} and @code{cpio} can both read lists -of file names from the standard input---either delimited by nulls (the +of file names from the standard input -- either delimited by nulls (the safe way) or by blanks (the lazy, risky default way). To use @@ -4354,3 +4354,3 @@ -@subsection Making Use of xargs +@subsection Making Use of @code{xargs} @@ -4393,3 +4393,3 @@ list of files that @code{xargs} reads could in fact contain white space -characters --- spaces, tabs and newline characters. Since by default, +characters -- spaces, tabs and newline characters. Since by default, @code{xargs} assumes that the list of files it is reading uses white @@ -4427,3 +4427,3 @@ -@subsection Going back to -exec +@subsection Going back to @code{-exec} @@ -4452,3 +4452,3 @@ -@subsection A more secure version of -exec +@subsection A more secure version of @code{-exec} @@ -4532,3 +4532,3 @@ -@subsection Using the -delete action +@subsection Using the @code{-delete} action @@ -4740,3 +4740,3 @@ -@subsection Using -printf and sort to compare timestamps +@subsection Using @code{-printf} and @code{sort} to compare timestamps @@ -4771,3 +4771,3 @@ -@subsection Solving the problem with make +@subsection Solving the problem with @code{make} @@ -5027,3 +5027,3 @@ @node Problems with -exec and filenames -@subsection Problems with -exec and filenames +@subsection Problems with @code{-exec} and filenames @@ -5103,3 +5103,3 @@ @node O_NOFOLLOW -@subsubsection O_NOFOLLOW +@subsubsection @code{O_NOFOLLOW} @@ -5143,3 +5143,3 @@ @node Systems without O_NOFOLLOW -@subsubsection Systems without O_NOFOLLOW +@subsubsection Systems without @code{O_NOFOLLOW} @@ -5184,3 +5184,3 @@ @node Race Conditions with -exec -@subsection Race Conditions with -exec +@subsection Race Conditions with @code{-exec} @@ -5238,3 +5238,3 @@ @node Race Conditions with -print and -print0 -@subsection Race Conditions with -print and -print0 +@subsection Race Conditions with @code{-print} and @code{-print0} @@ -5470,3 +5470,3 @@ you move into them (that is how it knows you want to use the -filesystem). So, if you do see this message, be wary --- +filesystem). So, if you do see this message, be wary -- @code{automount} may not have been responsible. Consider the @@ -5532,3 +5532,3 @@ @node Error Messages From xargs -@section Error Messages From xargs +@section Error Messages From @code{xargs} @@ -5606,3 +5606,3 @@ @node Error Messages From updatedb -@section Error Messages From updatedb +@section Error Messages From @code{updatedb} Diff finished at Thu Dec 29 11:23:48 _______________________________________________ Findutils-patches mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/findutils-patches
