From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 23 19:27:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A28137B400; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.reppep.com (www.reppep.com [64.81.19.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0176C43E5E; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:27:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pepper@reppep.com) Received: from [64.81.19.109] (g4.reppep.com [64.81.19.109]) by mail.reppep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE086177F4; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:33:48 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pepper@mail.reppep.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200207230910.g6N9A7rH020574@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200207230910.g6N9A7rH020574@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:21:15 -0400 To: Ceri Davies From: Chris Pepper Subject: Re: docs/40909: [PATCH] Typos in /usr/share/man/man4/ukbd.4.gz Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yep, my bad. If you can reverse the patch easily please do so; otherwise let me know and I'll regenerate it. Chris At 2:10 AM -0700 2002/07/23, Ceri Davies wrote: >The following reply was made to PR docs/40909; it has been noted by GNATS. > >From: Ceri Davies >To: Chris Pepper >Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org >Subject: Re: docs/40909: [PATCH] Typos in /usr/share/man/man4/ukbd.4.gz >Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:02:55 +0100 > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:36:22PM -0400, Chris Pepper said: > > > > >Description: > > ukbd.4 has infelicities. > > Hi Chris, > > I'm sorry but I'm not keen on any of the changes presented below - > is it possible that the patch is reversed, as each of these three > changes seems to introduce, rather than fix, grammatical error. > > > -If both an AT keyboard and one or more USB keyboards are used at >the same time, the > > +If both an AT keyboard as well as USB keyboards are used at the >same time, the > > AT keyboard will appear as > > The original text scans better - "both" and "as well as" should probably > never appear in the same sentence. > > > -From this point onwards, the first USB keyboard will be the keyboard > > -used for the console. > > +From this point on onwards, the first USB keyboard will be the keyboard > > +to be used as the console. > > The change in the first line introduces an error - "on" is repeated. > The change in the second line stirs the pedant in me, since "all the > console is not a keyboard" to paraphrase a popular saying. > > > -Because of the order of device > > +Because of the order of the device > > initialization, the USB keyboard will be detected > > .Em after > > the console driver > > "The order of device initialization" is correct here. > > Sorry for seemingly jumping on this with teeth bared. > > Ceri > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- Chris Pepper: Rockefeller University: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message