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Jason St. John
e9dd9f9547 man: improve grammar and word formatting in numerous man pages
Use proper grammar, word usage, adjective hyphenation, commas,
capitalization, spelling, etc.

To improve readability, some run-on sentences or sentence fragments were
revised.

[zj: remove the space from 'file name', 'host name', and 'time zone'.]
2013-07-02 23:06:22 -04:00
Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
bb31a4ac19 man: typo fixes
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55890

Fixed typos, serial comma, and removed "either" as there were more
than two options. Also did an extra rename of "system-shutdown"
to "systemd-shutdown" that was forgotten in commit
8bd3b8620c
2012-10-26 00:16:47 +02:00
Andrew Eikum
16dad32e43 Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."
As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd.
So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became
baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before
in my English-mother-tongue life.

Some quick Googling turned up a reference:
<http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html>

I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but
English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used
exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g.
"the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-,
respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence
"Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and
sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker.

This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and
replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully,
grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing
"resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably
just do in the future.

The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I
don't feel privileged to correct.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
2012-10-16 01:03:01 +02:00
Сковорода Никита Андреевич
2f1bb51336 man: handle-sleep-key is invalid, replace it with handle-suspend-key and handle-hibernate-key in systemd-inhibit help and man. 2012-10-03 19:15:02 -04:00
Lennart Poettering
12a1309e11 man: document new inhibitor types 2012-09-19 15:28:55 +02:00
Ville Skyttä
49f43d5f91 Spelling fixes. 2012-07-16 12:16:29 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
5b6a2c5aab man: add references to the new inhibitor lock documentation 2012-06-29 16:14:43 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
a45ad38bec man: fix --h vs. -h typos 2012-06-27 10:48:13 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
4943c1c94b logind: use "sleep" as generic term for "suspend", "hibernate", and later on "hybrid suspend" 2012-05-08 13:54:23 +02:00
Lennart Poettering
eecd1362f7 logind: implement delay inhibitor locks in addition to block inhibitor locks
This is useful to allow applications to synchronously save data before
the system is suspended or shut down.
2012-05-05 00:36:08 +02:00