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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2013-09-12 21:12:49 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-09-12 22:09:57 +0200
commit79640424059328268b9fb6c5fa8eb777b27a177e (patch)
treee3579216d1afd438e667044869dcdf9c732ef18c /man/machine-info.xml
parent982e44dbc3e70c97e83464a30354b80973d52b41 (diff)
man: wording and grammar updates
This is a recurring submission and includes corrections to various issue spotted. I guess I can just skip over reporting ubiquitous comma placement fixes… Highligts in this particular commit: - the "unsigned" type qualifier is completed to form a full type "unsigned int" - alphabetic -> lexicographic (that way we automatically define how numbers get sorted)
Diffstat (limited to 'man/machine-info.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/machine-info.xml8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/machine-info.xml b/man/machine-info.xml
index 7f396aafde..ddf8f8b3d0 100644
--- a/man/machine-info.xml
+++ b/man/machine-info.xml
@@ -94,13 +94,13 @@
<term><varname>PRETTY_HOSTNAME=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>A pretty
- human-readable UTF8 machine identifier
+ human-readable UTF-8 machine identifier
string. This should contain a name
like <literal>Lennart's
Laptop</literal> which is useful to
present to the user and does not
suffer by the syntax limitations of
- internet domain names. If possible the
+ internet domain names. If possible, the
internet hostname as configured in
<filename>/etc/hostname</filename>
should be kept similar to this
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
an Internet hostname of
<literal>lennarts-computer</literal>
might be a good choice. If this
- parameter is not set an application
+ parameter is not set, an application
should fall back to the Internet host
name for presentation
purposes.</para></listitem>
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
this machine according to the <ulink
url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html">XDG
Icon Naming Specification</ulink>. If
- this parameter is not set an
+ this parameter is not set, an
application should fall back to
<literal>computer</literal> or a
similar icon name.</para></listitem>