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commit a58b77f39a71e77dc313f761d81ed81b4c29485d
parent 094e09db96e4e51d8311d601af173fee8829afd9
Author: Josuah Demangeon <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:00:06 +0100
opus3: more typos and rewording, thanks josuah
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M opus3/article-chemla-confessions-t… | 8 ++++----
M opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of… | 7 +++++--
M opus3/article-unix-calendar-comman… | 19 +++++++++----------
M opus3/tgtimes3.pdf | 0
M opus3/tgtimes3.txt | 42 +++++++++++++++++------------…
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diff --git a/opus3/article-chemla-confessions-thief.mw b/opus3/article-chemla-c…
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ Confessions of a thief
.
.QP
Below is the beginning of "Confessions of a Thief" from Laurent
-Chemla, founded a major French DNS registrar, but before that, was
-the first to commit online piracy in France (from a Minitel), and
-worked on development tools Atari. The book is published online in
-French and translated below.
+Chemla. He founded a major French DNS registrar, but before that,
+was the first to commit online piracy in France (from a Minitel),
+and worked on development tools for Atari. The book is published
+online in French and translated below.
.
.PP
A thief. How else to name one of the first individual in France to
diff --git a/opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of-radiodiffusion.mw b/opus3/artic…
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ progressively to become what the Internet is today.
.PP
Letters were carried by messengers riding horses, postal train, or
airplanes. Long-range communication evolved slowly for a long time,
-but has accelerated rapidly in recent years, until today extreme.
+but has accelerated rapidly in recent years, until today extreme
bandwidth and latency.
.
.PP
@@ -31,5 +31,8 @@ radio broadcasting from Eiffel Tower with 900 W power intensi…
foundation of the BBC and arrival of 2000 W broadcastings
.
.PP
-A few years before, the long-range communication tool was paper.
+A few years before, the long-range communication tool of choice was
+paper.
+.
+.PP
A few years later, the telephone and television started to develop.
diff --git a/opus3/article-unix-calendar-command.mw b/opus3/article-unix-calend…
@@ -23,18 +23,17 @@ Empty lines are ignored, and the C preprocessor brings \fC#…
and \fC/* comments */\fR as needed.
.
.PP
-No need to format everything right away: taking notes at the end
-while in the middle of a phone call and formatting after hanging-up
-is making it trivial to manage a calendar.
+No need to format everything right away: taking notes at the bottom
+of the file, in the middle of a phone call and formatting after
+hanging-up... It is it trivial to manage a calendar file.
.
.PP
-while the calendar(1) command is run, events today and tomorrow are
-printed (with more choice of durations using flags), giving a digest
-of what is upcoming.
+While the calendar(1) command is run, events for today and tomorrow
+are printed: as a digest of what is upcoming.
.
.PP
-A command line flag permits sending the calendar digest to all users
-by email, making it a complete suite to use as a calendar.
+A command line flag permits sending this digest to all users by email,
+making it a complete calendar software suite from edition to reminder.
.
.PP
There is even support for weekly, monthly and yearly (birthdays)
@@ -46,8 +45,8 @@ calendar file by email, and synchronising the calendar across…
is a matter of synchronising a single file.
.
.PP
-By adding a few more custom syntax rules, a rather pretty digest can
-be written with very little effort.
+By adding a few more custom syntax rules on top of those supported by
+calendar(1), readable text can be maintained with little effort.
.
.DS
Jan 23 09:00 Breakfast: cooked eggs and fruits
diff --git a/opus3/tgtimes3.pdf b/opus3/tgtimes3.pdf
Binary files differ.
diff --git a/opus3/tgtimes3.txt b/opus3/tgtimes3.txt
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Letters were carried by messengers riding horses,
postal train, or airplanes. Long-range communication
evolved slowly for a long time, but has accelerated
- rapidly in recent years, until today extreme.
- bandwidth and latency.
+ rapidly in recent years, until today extreme bandwidth
+ and latency.
The common pattern: a new discovery in electronics
permits a new way to communicate information over a
@@ -150,8 +150,10 @@ __________________________________________________________…
broadcastings
A few years before, the long-range communication tool
- was paper. A few years later, the telephone and
- television started to develop.
+ of choice was paper.
+
+ A few years later, the telephone and television
+ started to develop.
@@ -217,8 +219,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________
stagit:
- Print the number of remaining commits.
- ' in writing diffs and file blobs.
- - Ignore '
+
+ - Ignore '\r' in writing diffs and file blobs.
+
- Percent encode characters in path names, like '?'
and '#'.
@@ -329,17 +332,17 @@ _________________________________________________________…
brings #include and /* comments */ as needed.
No need to format everything right away: taking notes
- at the end while in the middle of a phone call and
- formatting after hanging-up is making it trivial to
- manage a calendar.
+ at the bottom of the file, in the middle of a phone
+ call and formatting after hanging-up... It is it
+ trivial to manage a calendar file.
- while the calendar(1) command is run, events today and
- tomorrow are printed (with more choice of durations
- using flags), giving a digest of what is upcoming.
+ While the calendar(1) command is run, events for today
+ and tomorrow are printed: as a digest of what is
+ upcoming.
- A command line flag permits sending the calendar
- digest to all users by email, making it a complete
- suite to use as a calendar.
+ A command line flag permits sending this digest to all
+ users by email, making it a complete calendar software
+ suite from edition to reminder.
There is even support for weekly, monthly and yearly
(birthdays) events.
@@ -349,8 +352,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________
synchronising the calendar across devices is a matter
of synchronising a single file.
- By adding a few more custom syntax rules, a rather
- pretty digest can be written with very little effort.
+ By adding a few more custom syntax rules on top of
+ those supported by calendar(1), readable text can be
+ maintained with little effort.
Jan 23 09:00 Breakfast: cooked eggs and fruits
@ Home Sweet Home
@@ -446,10 +450,10 @@ _________________________________________________________…
____________________________________________________________
>> Below is the beginning of "Confessions of a Thief"
- from Laurent Chemla, founded a major French DNS
+ from Laurent Chemla. He founded a major French DNS
registrar, but before that, was the first to commit
online piracy in France (from a Minitel), and worked
- on development tools Atari. The book is published
+ on development tools for Atari. The book is published
online in French and translated below.
A thief. How else to name one of the first individual
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