Description: Fix manpage typos.
 Fix various typos in the manual pages.
Author: A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Reviewed-By: Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/184711
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/310350
Last-Update: 2014-04-14

--- a/diction.1.in
+++ b/diction.1.in
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ The text to match either starts with a s
 letters to match suffixes.  If it ends with a tilde, it matches a prefix.
 .PP
 The suggestion may be empty to mark fill words,
-contain an explaination or start with an equal sign followed by text to
-match for referring to the explaination of that text.  The right part can
+contain an explanation or start with an equal sign followed by text to
+match for referring to the explanation of that text.  The right part can
 consist of an exclamation mark to mark exceptions that should not be
 matched.
 .PP
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Empty lines or lines starting with a has
 .SH AUTHOR \"{{{
 This program is GNU software, copyright 1997\(en2017 Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>.
 .PP
-The english phrase file contains contributions by
+The English phrase file contains contributions by
 Wil Baden,
 Kimberly Hanks
 Gary D. Kline,
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Greg Lindahl <lindahl@pbm.com>,
 Beth Morris
 and
 Jeremy C. Reed.
-The dutch phrase file was contributed by Hans Lodder.
+The Dutch phrase file was contributed by Hans Lodder.
 .PP
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
--- a/style.1.in
+++ b/style.1.in
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ style \- analyse surface characteristics
 .br
 .ad l
 .B style
-.BR \-h | \-\-help 
+.BR \-h | \-\-help
 .ad b
-.br  
+.br
 .ad l
 .B style \-\-version
 .ad b
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ consists of two or more new line charact
 .SS "Readability grades"
 \fBStyle\fP understands \fIcpp\fP(1) \fB#line\fP lines for being able to
 give precise locations when printing sentences.
-.IP "Kincaid formula" \"{{{ 
-The Kincaid Formula was developed for Navy training manuals, that
-ranged in difficulty from 5.5 to 16.3.  It is probably best applied
+.IP "Kincaid formula" \"{{{
+The Kincaid Formula was developed for U.S. Navy training manuals; it
+ranges in difficulty from 5.5 to 16.3.  It is probably best applied
 to technical documents, because it is based on adult training manuals
 rather than school book text.  Dialogs (often found in fictional texts)
 are usually a series of short sentences, which lowers the score.  On the
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Kincaid = 11.8*syllables/wds+0.39*wds/se
 .\}
 .\"}}}
 .\"}}}
-.IP "Automated Readability Index" \"{{{ 
+.IP "Automated Readability Index" \"{{{
 The Automated Readability Index is typically higher than Kincaid and
 Coleman-Liau, but lower than Flesch.
 .sp
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ ARI = 4.71*chars/wds+0.5*wds/sentences-2
 .\}
 .\"}}}
 .\"}}}
-.IP "Coleman-Liau Formula" \"{{{ 
+.IP "Coleman-Liau Formula" \"{{{
 The Coleman-Liau Formula usually gives a lower grade than Kincaid,
 ARI and Flesch when applied to technical documents.
 .sp
@@ -122,16 +122,16 @@ Coleman-Liau = 5.88*chars/wds-29.5*sent/
 .\}
 .\"}}}
 .\"}}}
-.IP "Flesh reading easy formula" \"{{{ 
-The Flesh reading easy formula was developed by Flesh in 1948 and
-it is based on school text covering grade 3 to 12.  It is wide spread,
-especially in the USA, because of good results and simple computation.
-The index is usually between 0 (hard) and 100 (easy), standard English
-documents averages approximately 60 to 70.  Applying it to German
-documents does not deliver good results because of the different language
+.IP "Flesch Reading Ease formula" \"{{{
+Developed by Rudolph Flesch in 1948, the Flesch Reading Ease formula
+is based on school texts covering grades 3 to 12.  It is widespread,
+especially in the USA, because it is computed easily and produces good
+results.  The index ranges from 0 (hard) to 100 (easy).  Standard
+English documents average around 60 to 70.  Applying it to German
+documents gives poor results because of the different language
 structure.
 .sp
-.\"{{{ Flesh reading easy formula
+.\"{{{ Flesch reading easy formula
 .if t \{\
 .RS
 .EQ
@@ -147,13 +147,13 @@ Flesch Index = 206.835-84.6*syll/wds-1.0
 .\"}}}
 .\"}}}
 .IP "Fog Index" \"{{{
-The Fog index was developed by Robert Gunning.  Its value is a
-school grade.  The ``ideal'' Fog Index level is 7 or 8.  A level above
-12 indicates the writing sample is too hard for most people to read.
-Only use it on texts of at least hundred words to get meaningful results.
-Note that a correct implementation would not count words of three or
-more syllables that are proper names, combinations of easy words, or
-made three syllables by suffixes such as \(ened, \(enes, or \(ening.
+The Fog index was developed by Robert Gunning.  Its value is a school
+grade.  The \(lqideal\(rq Fog Index level is 7 or 8.  A level above 12
+indicates the writing sample is too hard for most people to read.
+Texts less than 100 words will not produce meaningful results.  Note
+that a correct implementation would not count words of three or more
+syllables that are proper names, combinations of easy words, or made
+three syllables by suffixes such as \(ened, \(enes, or \(ening.
 .sp
 .\"{{{ Fog Index formula
 .if t \{\
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Fog Index = 0.4*(wds/sent+100*((wds >= 3
 .\"col { WSTF ~ Index = above ~ }
 .\"lcol {
 .\"0.1935 * { words >= 3 ~ syllables } over words + 0.1672 * words over sentences -
-.\"above 
+.\"above
 .\"down 70 { 0.1297 * { words > 6 ~ characters } over words - 0.0327 * { words = 1 ~ syllable } over words - 0.875 }
 .\"}
 .\"}
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Fog Index = 0.4*(wds/sent+100*((wds >= 3
 .\"}}}
 .\"}}}
 .\" might be wrong
-.\".IP "Wheeler-Smith Index" \"{{{ 
+.\".IP "Wheeler-Smith Index" \"{{{
 .\"The Wheeler-Smith Index is mapped to school grades using a table:
 .\".sp
 .\"{{{ Wheeler-Smith Index
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Fog Index = 0.4*(wds/sent+100*((wds >= 3
 .\".RE
 .\"}}}
 .IP "Lix formula" \"{{{
-The Lix formula developed by Bjrnsson from Sweden is very simple and
+The Lix formula developed by Bj\(:ornsson from Sweden is very simple and
 employs a mapping table as well:
 .sp
 .\"{{{ Lix
@@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ School year##5##6##7##8##9##10##11
 .TE
 .RE
 .\"}}}
-.IP "SMOG-Grading" \"{{{
-The SMOG-Grading for English texts was developed by McLaughlin
-in 1969.  Its result is a school grade.
+.IP "SMOG Grading" \"{{{
+The SMOG Grading for English texts was developed by McLaughlin in
+1969.  Its result is a school grade.
 .sp
 .\"{{{ SMOG
 .if t \{\
@@ -275,12 +275,12 @@ italic "SMOG-Grading" = sqrt { { (words
 .\}
 .if n \{\
 .ad l
-SMOG-Grading = square root of (((wds >= 3 syll)/sent)*30) + 3
+SMOG Grading = square root of (((wds >= 3 syll)/sent)*30) + 3
 .ad b
 .\}
 .\"}}}
 .sp
-It has been adapted to German by Bamberger & Vanecek in 1984, who changed
+It was adapted to German by Bamberger and Vanecek in 1984, who changed
 the constant +3 to \-2.
 .\"}}}
 .SS "Word usage"
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ programs\fP, Computer Science Technical
 Murray Hill, N.J. (1981), republished as part of the 4.4BSD User's
 Supplementary Documents by O'Reilly.
 .P
-Coleman, M. and Liau,T.L. (1975). 'A computer readability formula designed for  
+Coleman, M. and Liau,T.L. (1975). 'A computer readability formula designed for
 machine scoring', Journal of Applied Psychology, 60(2), 283-284.
 .\"
 .\" De Vries, Hugo: \fIReading Ease@WWW\fP, http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/~hdevries/RE.html
