From d1e4ad1b02b2ea888557d3272c50b676faf18ca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 18:06:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Fix typos in descriptions. * gnu/packages/admin.scm (di)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-annotate)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/datastructures.scm (sparsehash)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/dns.scm (knot)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-idle-highlight)[synopsis, description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (libpeas)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/gtk.scm (python2-pygtk)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm (kactivities)[description]: Fix typo. * gnu/packages/libevent.scm (perl-anyevent)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm (ghmm)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/mail.scm (mlmmj)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/maths.scm (vc)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/music.scm (gx-super-fuzz-lv2)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/networking.scm (nload)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-execnet)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/terminals.scm (tilda)[description]: Likewise. * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-execnet, python-tables) (python2-coverage-test-runner, python2-rope)[description]: Likewise. --- gnu/packages/admin.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/datastructures.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/dns.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/emacs.scm | 4 ++-- gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 12 ++++++------ gnu/packages/gtk.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm | 4 ++-- gnu/packages/libevent.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/mail.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/maths.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/music.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/networking.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/python.scm | 8 ++++---- gnu/packages/terminals.scm | 2 +- 16 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/admin.scm b/gnu/packages/admin.scm index 3d822bf5a6..4daaddcfec 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/admin.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/admin.scm @@ -1763,7 +1763,7 @@ (define-public di "'di' is a disk information utility, displaying everything (and more) that your @code{df} command does. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you prefer. It is designed to be -highly portable. Great for heterogenous networks.") +highly portable. Great for heterogeneous networks.") (license license:zlib))) (define-public cbatticon diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm index c71e70bc63..2b0303b06d 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm @@ -5406,7 +5406,7 @@ (define-public r-annotate (home-page "http://bioconductor.org/packages/annotate") (synopsis "Annotation for microarrays") - (description "This package provides R enviroments for the annotation of + (description "This package provides R environments for the annotation of microarrays.") (license license:artistic2.0))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/datastructures.scm b/gnu/packages/datastructures.scm index ef249b9659..79068a54d0 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/datastructures.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/datastructures.scm @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ (define-public sparsehash "This library contains several hash-map implementations, similar in API to SGI's @code{hash_map} class, but with different performance characteristics. @code{sparse_hash_map} uses very little space overhead, 1-2 -bits per entry. @code{dense_hash_map} is very fast, particulary on lookup. +bits per entry. @code{dense_hash_map} is very fast, particularly on lookup. @code{sparse_hash_set} and @code{dense_hash_set} are the set versions of these routines. All these implementation use a hashtable with internal quadratic probing. This method is space-efficient -- there is no pointer overhead -- diff --git a/gnu/packages/dns.scm b/gnu/packages/dns.scm index 53ffa54630..e567d6c802 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/dns.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/dns.scm @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ (define-public knot "/etc/bash_completion.d")))) (home-page "https://www.knot-dns.cz/") (synopsis "Authoritative DNS name server") - (description "Knot DNS is an authorative name server for the @dfn{Domain + (description "Knot DNS is an authoritative name server for the @dfn{Domain Name System} (DNS), designed to meet the needs of root and @dfn{top-level domain} (TLD) name servers. It is implemented as a threaded daemon and uses a number of programming techniques to improve speed. For example, the responder diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm index 89108e7647..673bbdf893 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm @@ -4059,10 +4059,10 @@ (define-public emacs-idle-highlight "0kdv10hrgqpskjh0zvpnzwlkn5bccnqxas62gkws6njln57bf8nl")))) (build-system emacs-build-system) (home-page "https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IdleHighlight") - (synopsis "Highlights all occurences of the word the point is on") + (synopsis "Highlights all occurrences of the word the point is on") (description "This Emacs package provides @code{idle-highlight-mode} that sets - an idle timer to highlight all occurences in the buffer of the word under + an idle timer to highlight all occurrences in the buffer of the word under the point.") (license license:gpl3+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm index 40bac9fd93..8db53f109a 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Griffin ;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 ;;; Copyright © 2016 David Craven -;;; Copyright © 2016 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice ;;; Copyright © 2017 Thomas Danckaert ;;; Copyright © 2017 Hartmut Goebel ;;; @@ -863,11 +863,11 @@ (define-public libpeas (home-page "https://wiki.gnome.org/Libpeas") (synopsis "GObject plugin system") (description - "Libpeas is a gobject-based plugins engine, and is targetted at giving -every application the chance to assume its own extensibility. It also has a -set of features including, but not limited to: multiple extension points; on -demand (lazy) programming language support for C, Python and JS; simplicity of -the API.") + "Libpeas is a gobject-based plugin engine, targeted at giving every +application the chance to assume its own extensibility. It also has a set of +features including, but not limited to: multiple extension points; on-demand +(lazy) programming language support for C, Python and JS; simplicity of the +API.") (license license:lgpl2.0+))) (define-public gtkglext diff --git a/gnu/packages/gtk.scm b/gnu/packages/gtk.scm index 728ea2075f..f8526053ea 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gtk.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gtk.scm @@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ (define-public python2-pygtk (synopsis "Python bindings for GTK+") (description "PyGTK allows you to write full featured GTK programs in Python. It is -targetted at GTK 2.x, and can be used in conjunction with gnome-python to +targeted at GTK 2.x, and can be used in conjunction with gnome-python to write GNOME applications.") (license license:lgpl2.1+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm b/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm index 78654a1cd3..2ec176422c 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm @@ -1426,7 +1426,7 @@ (define-public kfilemetadata (synopsis "Extract metadata from different fileformats") (description "KFileMetaData provides a simple library for extracting the text and metadata from a number of different files. This library is typically -used by file indexers to retreive the metadata. This library can also be used +used by file indexers to retrieve the metadata. This library can also be used by applications to write metadata.") (license (list license:lgpl2.0 license:lgpl2.1 license:lgpl3)))) @@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ (define-public kactivities (home-page "https://community.kde.org/Frameworks") (synopsis "Core components for the KDE Activity concept") (description "KActivities provides the infrastructure needed to manage a -user's activites, allowing them to switch between tasks, and for applications +user's activities, allowing them to switch between tasks, and for applications to update their state to match the user's current activity. This includes a daemon, a library for interacting with that daemon, and plugins for integration with other frameworks.") diff --git a/gnu/packages/libevent.scm b/gnu/packages/libevent.scm index 1bfdefd7b5..4aab447333 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/libevent.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/libevent.scm @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ (define-public perl-anyevent "API for I/O, timer, signal, child process and completion events") (description "This module allows using a variety of events without forcing module -authors to pick a specific event loop, and without noticable overhead. +authors to pick a specific event loop, and without noticeable overhead. Currently supported event loops are EV, Event, Glib/Gtk2, Tk, Qt, @code{Event::Lib}, Irssi, @code{IO::Async} and POE (and thus also WxWidgets and Prima). It also comes with a very fast Pure Perl event loop that does diff --git a/gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm b/gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm index 30f005a331..58ae81d207 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ (define-public ghmm (description "The General Hidden Markov Model library (GHMM) is a C library with additional Python bindings implementing a wide range of types of @dfn{Hidden -Markov Models} (HMM) and algorithms: discrete, continous emissions, basic +Markov Models} (HMM) and algorithms: discrete, continuous emissions, basic training, HMM clustering, HMM mixtures.") (license license:lgpl2.0+)))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm index dd33130f22..983629f85d 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/mail.scm @@ -2053,7 +2053,7 @@ (define-public mlmmj (description "Mlmmj is a simple and slim mailing list manager (MLM) inspired by ezmlm. It works with many different Mail Transport Agents (MTAs) and is simple for a -system adminstrator to install, configure and integrate with other software. +system administrator to install, configure and integrate with other software. As it uses very few resources, and requires no daemons, it is ideal for installation on systems where resources are limited. Its features include: @enumerate diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm index a924764db0..272a0979ad 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm @@ -3003,7 +3003,7 @@ (define-public vc instruction sets. Thus, an application written with Vc can be compiled for: @enumerate @item AVX and AVX2 -@item SSE2 upto SSE4.2 or SSE4a +@item SSE2 up to SSE4.2 or SSE4a @item Scalar @item MIC @item NEON (in development) diff --git a/gnu/packages/music.scm b/gnu/packages/music.scm index 2a37cf4a4e..c434aa5eb2 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/music.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/music.scm @@ -2526,7 +2526,7 @@ (define-public gx-super-fuzz-lv2 (synopsis "Fuzz effect modelled after the UniVox SuperFuzz") (description "This package provides the LV2 plugin \"GxSuperFuzz\", an analog simulation of the UniVox SuperFuzz pedal. In this simulation the trim -pot, which is usualy in the housing, is exposed as a control parameter. It +pot, which is usually in the housing, is exposed as a control parameter. It adjusts the amount of harmonics."))) (define-public gx-vintage-fuzz-master-lv2 diff --git a/gnu/packages/networking.scm b/gnu/packages/networking.scm index 3413487f9e..cb9903791e 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/networking.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/networking.scm @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ (define-public nload (description "Nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic using -two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transfered data +two graphs, and provides additional info like total amount of transferred data and min/max network usage.") (license license:gpl2+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index 231c629297..8cd433a93d 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm @@ -7089,7 +7089,7 @@ (define-public python-tables (home-page "http://www.pytables.org/") (synopsis "Hierarchical datasets for Python") (description "PyTables is a package for managing hierarchical datasets and -designed to efficently cope with extremely large amounts of data.") +designed to efficiently cope with extremely large amounts of data.") (license license:bsd-3))) (define-public python2-tables @@ -8691,7 +8691,7 @@ (define-public python-execnet (description "Execnet provides a share-nothing model with channel-send/receive communication for distributing execution across many Python interpreters across version, platform and network barriers. It has a -minimal and fast API targetting the following uses: +minimal and fast API targeting the following uses: @enumerate @item distribute tasks to (many) local or remote CPUs @item write and deploy hybrid multi-process applications @@ -10790,7 +10790,7 @@ (define-public python2-rope (description "Rope is a refactoring library for Python. It facilitates the renaming, moving and extracting of attributes, functions, modules, fields and parameters in Python 2 source code. These refactorings can also be applied -to occurences in strings and comments.") +to occurrences in strings and comments.") (license license:gpl2))) (define-public python-py3status @@ -13832,7 +13832,7 @@ (define-public python2-coverage-test-runner (home-page "https://liw.fi/coverage-test-runner/") (synopsis "Python module for running unit tests") (description "@code{CoverageTestRunner} is a python module for running -unit tests and failing them if the unit test module does not excercise all +unit tests and failing them if the unit test module does not exercise all statements in the module it tests.") (license license:gpl3+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm index 7dcd164dc6..979278a53b 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ (define-public tilda gnome-terminal (GNOME) or Konsole (KDE), with the difference that it drops down from the edge of a screen when a certain configurable hotkey is pressed. This is similar to the built-in consoles in some applications. Tilda is highly -configureable through a graphical wizard.") +configurable through a graphical wizard.") (home-page "https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda") (license license:gpl2+)))