[kde-doc-english] [kate/KDE/4.12] doc/kate: Fixing typos, improving the meaning of sentences, using entities, and making words or phrases more consistent

Burkhard Lück lueck at hube-lueck.de
Tue Dec 24 10:07:25 UTC 2013


Git commit 2dbf446d62649f7ad53c693fc56460f3d1fcc5a9 by Burkhard Lück, on behalf of David Palser.
Committed on 22/11/2013 at 13:59.
Pushed by lueck into branch 'KDE/4.12'.

Fixing typos, improving the meaning of sentences, using entities, and making words or phrases more consistent
(cherry picked from commit 5dcecb27e8e6ec394d262dee87a3fde6d7d07b5a)
backport to 4.12.1

M  +26   -26   doc/kate/menus.docbook

http://commits.kde.org/kate/2dbf446d62649f7ad53c693fc56460f3d1fcc5a9

diff --git a/doc/kate/menus.docbook b/doc/kate/menus.docbook
index fb569db..851e59a 100644
--- a/doc/kate/menus.docbook
+++ b/doc/kate/menus.docbook
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ location.
 This submenu presents a list of applications known to handle the mime type
 of your current document. Activating an entry will open the current document
 with that application.</para>
-<para>In addition, a entry <guimenuitem>Other...</guimenuitem> command launches
+<para>In addition, an entry <guimenuitem>Other...</guimenuitem> launches
 the open with dialog box that allows you to <action>select another application
 to open the active file</action>. Your file will still be open in &kate;.
 </para>
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ currently open file.</para>
 Mode</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Switch to a vi-like, modal editing mode. This mode supports the most used commands
-and motions from vim's normal and visual mode and has an optional vi mode statusbar.
+and motions from vim's normal and visual mode and has an optional vi mode status bar.
 This status bar shows commands while they are being entered, output from commands and
 the current mode.The behavior of this mode can be configured in the
 <link linkend="pref-edit-vi-input-mode">Vi Input Mode</link> section of the
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ The new instance will be identical to your previous instance.
 <listitem>
 <para>Show a search field and a list of opened files in the editor area.
 While entering text in the search
-field the document names and document urls are searched for matching text.
+field the document names and document &URL;s are searched for matching text.
 While entering text in the search field you can use
 the cursor keys <keysym>Up</keysym> and <keysym>Down</keysym> to navigate in the
 list view. Pressing the &Enter; key or double clicking on an item in the list switches
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ same document as the old one.</para>
 </term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Splits the current frame (which may be the main editing area) in two equally sized frames,
-the new one at the bottom half. The new frame gets the focus, and displays the same document as
+the new one below the current one. The new frame gets the focus, and displays the same document as
 the old one.</para>
 <para>See also <link linkend="kate-mdi">Working with the &kate; MDI</link></para>
 </listitem>
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ the File List.</para> <para>See also <link linkend="kate-mdi">Working with the
 </menuchoice>
 </term>
 <listitem>
-<para>When Split View is enabled, this will move the border in between two
+<para>When Split View is enabled, this will move the border between two
 vertically split documents further left.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ vertically split documents further left.</para>
 </menuchoice>
 </term>
 <listitem>
-<para>When Split View is enabled, this will move the border in between two
+<para>When Split View is enabled, this will move the border between two
 vertically split documents further right.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ vertically split documents further right.</para>
 </menuchoice>
 </term>
 <listitem>
-<para>When Split View is enabled, this will move the border in between two
+<para>When Split View is enabled, this will move the border between two
 horizontally split documents further up.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ horizontally split documents further up.</para>
 </menuchoice>
 </term>
 <listitem>
-<para>When Split View is enabled, this will move the border in between two
+<para>When Split View is enabled, this will move the border between two
 horizontally split documents further down.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
@@ -804,8 +804,8 @@ horizontally split documents further down.</para>
 <guimenuitem>Show Sidebars</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
 <listitem><para>Toggles the display of the sidebar button rows. This command
 does not affect the display of the sidebar content widgets, any sidebar that
-is visible will stay visible, and if you assigned shortcuts to the below
-commands those will of course continue to work.</para></listitem>
+is visible will stay visible, and if you assigned shortcuts to the
+commands below those will of course continue to work.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 
 <varlistentry>
@@ -830,8 +830,8 @@ commands those will of course continue to work.</para></listitem>
 </menuchoice>
 </term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Toggles the display of the built in terminal emulator.</para>
-<para>When activated the first time, the terminal will be created.</para>
+<para>Toggles the display of the built-in terminal emulator.</para>
+<para>When activated for the first time, the terminal will be created.</para>
 <para>When the terminal emulator is displayed, it will get the focus, so that
 you can start typing in commands immediately. If the <link
 linkend="config-dialog-general-sync-konsole">Automatically synchronize the terminal
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ enabled by default.</para>
 <guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Switch to Command Line</guimenuitem>
 </menuchoice></term>
 <listitem><para>This command will toggle the display of the
-<link linkend="advanced-editing-tools-commandline">built in command line</link>.
+<link linkend="advanced-editing-tools-commandline">built-in command line</link>.
 </para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ feature requires that you use a true fixed-width font.</para>
 </menuchoice>
 </term>
 <listitem>
-<para>This is a toggle item. Setting it on checked will make the Icon Border
+<para>This is a toggle item. Setting it to be checked will make the Icon Border
 visible in the left side of the active editor, and vice versa. The Icon Border
 indicates the positions of the marked lines in the editor.</para>
 </listitem>
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ indicates the positions of the marked lines in the editor.</para>
 </menuchoice>
 </term>
 <listitem>
-<para>This is a toggle Item. Setting it on checked will make a pane displaying
+<para>This is a toggle Item. Setting it to be checked will make a pane displaying
 the line numbers of the document visible in the left border of the active editor,
 and vice versa.</para>
 </listitem>
@@ -947,8 +947,8 @@ and vice versa.</para>
 <term><menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Show Scrollbar
 Marks</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
 <listitem><para>Toggles the visualization of bookmarks (and other marks) on the
-vertical scrollbar. When enabled, marks are represented by a thin line in the
-mark color at the scrollbar, middleclicking on the lines will scroll the view
+vertical scrollbar. When enabled, a mark is represented by a thin line in the
+mark color at the scrollbar, clicking the &MMB; on the line will scroll the view
 to a position near the mark.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 
@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ Code Folding</link>.</para></listitem>
 <guimenuitem>Fold Toplevel Nodes</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
 </term>
 <listitem><para>Collapse all toplevel regions in the document.
-Click onto the right pointing triangle to expand all toplevel regions.</para></listitem>
+Click on the right pointing triangle to expand all toplevel regions.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 
 <!--FIXME not implemented in 4.11
@@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ in a line above the cursor.</para></listitem>
 <term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">&Alt;
 <keycap>PgDown</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
 <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu><guimenuitem>Next</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
-<listitem><para>This will move the cursor to beginning of the next line with a
+<listitem><para>This will move the cursor to the beginning of the next line with a
 bookmark. The menuitem text will include the line number and the first piece of
 text on the line. This item is only available when there is a bookmark in a line
 below the cursor.</para></listitem>
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ and delete sessions.</para></listitem>
 <varlistentry>
 <term><menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Pipe to
 Terminal</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
-<listitem><para>Feed the currently selected text into the built in terminal
+<listitem><para>Feed the currently selected text into the built-in terminal
 emulator. No newline is added after the text.  This menu item is displayed by the
 Terminal Tool View plugin, which is enabled by default.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
@@ -1295,11 +1295,11 @@ the endianness (byte order) of a text file or stream, for more information see
 <guisubmenu>Scripts</guisubmenu></menuchoice></term>
  <listitem>
 <para>This submenu contains a list of all scripted actions. The list can easily be
-modified by <link linkend="dev-scripting-command-line">writing
+modified by <link linkend="dev-scripting-command-line">writing your
 own scripts</link>. This way, &kate; can be extended with user-defined tools.
 </para>
 
-<para>For more information about the scripts included with kate, see
+<para>For more information about the scripts included with &kate;, see
 <xref linkend="scripts"/>.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ Completion</guimenuitem> pops up a completion box with matching entries.</para>
 <guimenuitem>Automatic Spell Checking</guimenuitem>
 </menuchoice></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>When <guimenuitem>Automatic Spell Checking</guimenuitem> is enabled, wrong text
+<para>When <guimenuitem>Automatic Spell Checking</guimenuitem> is enabled, wrongly spelled text
 is underlined in the document on-the-fly.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
@@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ section of the <emphasis>&kde; Fundamentals</emphasis> documentation</ulink>.
 <guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guisubmenu>Spelling</guisubmenu>
 <guimenuitem>Spelling (from cursor)...</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
  <listitem>
-<para>This initiates the spellchecking program but it starts where your cursor
+<para>This initiates the spellchecking program but it starts from where your cursor
 is instead of at the beginning of the document.</para>
  </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
@@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ is instead of at the beginning of the document.</para>
  <listitem>
 <para>Displays a drop down box with all available dictionaries for spellchecking
 at the bottom of the editor window. This allows easy switching of the spellcheck
-dictionary ⪚ for automatic spellcheck of text in different languages.</para>
+dictionary ⪚ for automatic spellchecking of text in different languages.</para>
  </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <!-- Indent/Unindent no longer in the menu in 4.11???, but shortcuts work
@@ -1530,7 +1530,7 @@ Snippet..
 -->
 </variablelist>
 <para>Menu items for the selected <link linkend="pref-plugins">plugins</link>
-are displayed at the end of this menu
+are displayed at the end of this menu.
 </para>
 
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