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| author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-07-06 16:37:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-07-06 16:37:23 +0000 |
| commit | 09bd7b30845547e5305926253c4a5e4824c4267b (patch) | |
| tree | 43f31b764f2f4831bf47cc222c79e9d014abe77f /prologue | |
| parent | 6a5ad55557762d20335e249ec7ad5b13fc4c21f9 (diff) | |
Several typo fixes
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6404 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'prologue')
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/audience.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/foreword.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/typography.xml | 2 |
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/prologue/audience.xml b/prologue/audience.xml index 3f69b4440..3f19342fa 100644 --- a/prologue/audience.xml +++ b/prologue/audience.xml @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <?dbhtml filename="audience.html"?> <para>There are many reasons why somebody would want to read this -book. The principle reason is to install a Linux system +book. The principal reason is to install a Linux system from the source code. A question many people raise is, <quote>why go through all the hassle of manually building a Linux system from scratch when you can just download and install an existing diff --git a/prologue/foreword.xml b/prologue/foreword.xml index 7070a4f43..7e2b91093 100644 --- a/prologue/foreword.xml +++ b/prologue/foreword.xml @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <?dbhtml filename="foreword.html"?> <para>My adventures in Linux began in 1998 when I downloaded and -installed my first distribution. After working with it for awhile, I +installed my first distribution. After working with it for a while, I discovered issues I definitely would have liked to see improved upon. For example, I didn't like the arrangement of the bootscripts or the way programs were configured by default. I tried a number of alternative diff --git a/prologue/typography.xml b/prologue/typography.xml index 13cc4d199..909ff3032 100644 --- a/prologue/typography.xml +++ b/prologue/typography.xml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ referenced.</para> <screen><computeroutput>install-info: unknown option '--dir-file=/mnt/lfs/usr/info/dir'</computeroutput></screen> -<para>This form of text (fixed width text) shows screen output, +<para>This form of text (fixed-width text) shows screen output, probably as the result of commands issued. This format is also used to show filenames, such as <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.</para> |