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authorPaul A. Patience <paul@apatience.com>2022-02-07 10:56:27 +0000
committerKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2022-02-07 09:38:24 -0800
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doc: fix a few more typos.
* txr.1: Fix typos.
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diff --git a/txr.1 b/txr.1
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@@ -11783,7 +11783,7 @@ meta-variable.
When the atom is an integer, the meta-atom expression is called a meta-number.
Meta-atom and meta-expression expressions have no evaluation semantics;
-evaluating them throws an exception. They plays a syntactic role in the
+evaluating them throws an exception. They play a syntactic role in the
.code op
operator, which makes use of meta-variables and meta-numbers, and in structural
pattern matching, which uses meta-variables as pattern variables and whose
@@ -17889,7 +17889,7 @@ predicate.
.desc
These macros iterate zero or more variables over sequences, similarly to the
.code each
-operator and calculate logical results, with short-circuiting semantics.
+operator, and calculate logical results, with short-circuiting semantics.
The
.code each-true
@@ -17906,7 +17906,7 @@ value of the result variable is returned.
If no variables are specified, termination occurs immediately.
Note that this is different from the
.code each
-operator, which iterates infinitely if no variables are specified.
+operator, which iterates indefinitely if no variables are specified.
The
.metn body-form s
@@ -17923,7 +17923,8 @@ The
.code some-true
macro is similar to
.codn each-true ,
-with these differences. The internal result variable is initialized to
+with the following differences.
+The internal result variable is initialized to
.code nil
rather than
.codn t .
@@ -62406,9 +62407,9 @@ The
function creates a new
.code cptr
object similar to
-.codn cptr ,
+.metn cptr ,
which has the same address and type symbol as
-.codn cptr .
+.metn cptr .
.coNP Function @ cptr-zap
.synb
@@ -68112,7 +68113,7 @@ list to
.desc
The
.code *child-env*
-variable specifies the list of command line variables established for programs
+variable specifies the list of command-line variables established for programs
executed via the functions
.codn exec ,
.codn run ,
@@ -68803,7 +68804,7 @@ The
.code opthelp-types
and
.code opthelp-conventions
-methods takes an optional stream argument.
+methods take an optional stream argument.
Note: to encode the option names
.str "t"
@@ -87077,8 +87078,8 @@ this area is filled with null bytes.
If the \*(TX executable is edited such that this area is replaced
with a nonempty, null-terminated UTF-8 string, the program will,
for the purposes of command-line-argument processing, treat this string as if
-it were the one and only command-line argument. (The original command
-line arguments are still retained in the
+it were the one and only command-line argument.
+(The original command-line arguments are still retained in the
.code *args*
and
.code *args-full*