opus3: more typos and rewording, thanks josuah - tgtimes - The Gopher Times HTML git clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR Tags DIR README --- DIR commit a58b77f39a71e77dc313f761d81ed81b4c29485d DIR parent 094e09db96e4e51d8311d601af173fee8829afd9 HTML Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:00:06 +0100 opus3: more typos and rewording, thanks josuah Diffstat: 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 +++++++++++++++++-------------- 5 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) --- DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-chemla-confessions-thief.mw b/opus3/article-chemla-confessions-thief.mw @@ -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 DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of-radiodiffusion.mw b/opus3/article-tgtimes-100-years-of-radiodiffusion.mw @@ -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 intensity 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. DIR diff --git a/opus3/article-unix-calendar-command.mw b/opus3/article-unix-calendar-command.mw @@ -23,18 +23,17 @@ Empty lines are ignored, and the C preprocessor brings \fC#include\fR 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 devices 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 DIR diff --git a/opus3/tgtimes3.pdf b/opus3/tgtimes3.pdf Binary files differ. DIR 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