spelling corrections
Brian Gough
bjg at network-theory.co.uk
Fri Nov 7 08:48:31 CST 2008
Here is a patch with some spelling corrections to the manual.
changeset: 8308:aeaf884ea9af
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] assoicated => associated
diff -r ec969f3b8955 -r aeaf884ea9af scripts/general/accumarray.m
--- a/scripts/general/accumarray.m
+++ b/scripts/general/accumarray.m
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
## column vector and returns a scalar. The result of the function should not
## depend on the order of the subscripts.
##
-## The elements of the returned array that have no subscripts assoicated with
+## The elements of the returned array that have no subscripts associated with
## them are set to zero. Defining @var{fillval} to some other value allows
## these values to be defined.
##
changeset: 8309:9b1414852d26
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] errobars => errorbars
diff -r aeaf884ea9af -r 9b1414852d26 doc/interpreter/plot.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@
@itemx xldata
@itemx xudata
The data to be plotted. The @code{ldata} and @code{udata} elements are
-for errobars in the y direction, and the @code{xldata} and @code{xudata}
+for errorbars in the y direction, and the @code{xldata} and @code{xudata}
elements are for errorbars in the x direction.
@item color
changeset: 8310:00a91393ffa5
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] execption => exception
diff -r 9b1414852d26 -r 00a91393ffa5 src/variables.cc
--- a/src/variables.cc
+++ b/src/variables.cc
@@ -2345,7 +2345,7 @@
The arguments are treated as regular expressions as any variables that\n\
match will be cleared.\n\
@end table\n\
-With the execption of @code{exclusive}, all long options can be used \n\
+With the exception of @code{exclusive}, all long options can be used \n\
without the dash as well.\n\
@end deffn")
{
changeset: 8311:c0ef0d35ee47
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] formating => formatting
diff -r 00a91393ffa5 -r c0ef0d35ee47 doc/interpreter/plot.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@
characters are also inserted with a code starting with the back-slash
(\) character, as in the table @ref{tab:extended}.
-In addition, the formating of the text can be changed within the string
+In addition, the formatting of the text can be changed within the string
with the codes
@multitable @columnfractions .2 .2 .6 .2
diff -r 00a91393ffa5 -r c0ef0d35ee47 scripts/time/datetick.m
--- a/scripts/time/datetick.m
+++ b/scripts/time/datetick.m
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} datetick (@dots{ax}, @dots{})
## Adds date formatted tick labels to an axis. The axis the apply the
## ticks to is determined by @var{axis} that can take the values "x",
-## "y" or "z". The default value is "x". The formating of the labels is
+## "y" or "z". The default value is "x". The formatting of the labels is
## determined by the variable @var{form}, that can either be a string in
## the format needed by @code{dateform}, or a positive integer that can
## be accepted by @code{datestr}.
changeset: 8312:21b4435ba43c
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] possitive => positive
diff -r c0ef0d35ee47 -r 21b4435ba43c scripts/testfun/assert.m
--- a/scripts/testfun/assert.m
+++ b/scripts/testfun/assert.m
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
##
## @item assert(@var{observed}, @var{expected}, @var{tol})
## Accept a tolerance when comparing numbers.
-## If @var{tol} is possitive use it as an absolute tolerance, will produce an error if
+## If @var{tol} is positive use it as an absolute tolerance, will produce an error if
## @code{abs(@var{observed} - @var{expected}) > abs(@var{tol})}.
## If @var{tol} is negative use it as a relative tolerance, will produce an error if
## @code{abs(@var{observed} - @var{expected}) > abs(@var{tol} * @var{expected})}.
changeset: 8313:4ff3db246a4e
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] representive => represent
diff -r 21b4435ba43c -r 4ff3db246a4e scripts/sparse/spdiags.m
--- a/scripts/sparse/spdiags.m
+++ b/scripts/sparse/spdiags.m
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
## Otherwise a matrix of @var{m} by @var{n} is created with the
## diagonals given by @var{v}.
##
-## Negative values of @var{c} representive diagonals below the main
+## Negative values of @var{c} represent diagonals below the main
## diagonal, and positive values of @var{c} diagonals above the main
## diagonal.
##
changeset: 8314:dcc79de5fd22
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] arrgument => argument
diff -r 4ff3db246a4e -r dcc79de5fd22 scripts/plot/pie.m
--- a/scripts/plot/pie.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/pie.m
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} pie (@dots{});
## Produce a pie chart.
##
-## Called with a single vector arrgument, produces a pie chart of the
+## Called with a single vector argument, produces a pie chart of the
## elements in @var{x}, with the size of the slice determined by percentage
## size of the values of @var{x}.
##
changeset: 8315:6cba0151c749
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] compatiable => compatible
diff -r dcc79de5fd22 -r 6cba0151c749 src/bitfcns.cc
--- a/src/bitfcns.cc
+++ b/src/bitfcns.cc
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@
"-*- texinfo -*-\n\
@deftypefn {Built-in Function} {} bitmax ()\n\
Return the largest integer that can be represented as a floating point\n\
-value. On IEEE-754 compatiable systems, @code{bitmax} is @code{2^53 - 1}.\n\
+value. On IEEE-754 compatible systems, @code{bitmax} is @code{2^53 - 1}.\n\
@end deftypefn")
{
octave_value retval;
changeset: 8316:0b9ff373f0f1
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] corrosponding => corresponding
diff -r 6cba0151c749 -r 0b9ff373f0f1 scripts/general/sortrows.m
--- a/scripts/general/sortrows.m
+++ b/scripts/general/sortrows.m
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
## Sort the rows of the matrix @var{a} according to the order of the
## columns specified in @var{c}. If @var{c} is omitted, a
## lexicographical sort is used. By default ascending order is used
-## however if elements of @var{c} are negative then the corrosponding
+## however if elements of @var{c} are negative then the corresponding
## column is sorted in descending order.
## @end deftypefn
changeset: 8317:3efd91dbeba9
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] countour => contour
diff -r 0b9ff373f0f1 -r 3efd91dbeba9 scripts/plot/contourc.m
--- a/scripts/plot/contourc.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/contourc.m
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{c}, @var{lev}] =} contourc (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}, @var{vn})
-## Compute isolines (countour lines) of the matrix @var{z}.
+## Compute isolines (contour lines) of the matrix @var{z}.
## Parameters @var{x}, @var{y} and @var{vn} are optional.
##
## The return value @var{lev} is a vector of the contour levels.
changeset: 8318:be41c24d254a
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] cummulative => cumulative
diff -r 3efd91dbeba9 -r be41c24d254a doc/interpreter/plot.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
@@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@
@item xdata
@itemx ydata
The x and y coordinates of the original columns of the data passed to
- at code{area} prior to the cummulative summation used in the @code{area}
+ at code{area} prior to the cumulative summation used in the @code{area}
function.
@item xdatasource
diff -r 3efd91dbeba9 -r be41c24d254a scripts/plot/area.m
--- a/scripts/plot/area.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/area.m
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} area (@var{y}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} area (@var{h}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} area (@dots{})
-## Area plot of cummulative sum of the columns of @var{y}. This shows the
+## Area plot of cumulative sum of the columns of @var{y}. This shows the
## contributions of a value to a sum, and is functionally similar to
## @code{plot (@var{x}, cumsum (@var{y}, 2))}, except that the area under
## the curve is shaded.
changeset: 8319:d3a670205984
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] derivate => derivative
diff -r be41c24d254a -r d3a670205984 doc/interpreter/interp.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/interp.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/interp.txi
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
@float Figure,fig:interpderiv2
@image{interpderiv2,8cm}
- at caption{Comparison of the second derivate of the 'phcip' and 'spline'
+ at caption{Comparison of the second derivative of the 'phcip' and 'spline'
interpolation methods for a step function}
@end float
@end ifnotinfo
changeset: 8320:d160a7c53bdb
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] Dissertaion => Dissertation
diff -r d3a670205984 -r d160a7c53bdb src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc
--- a/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc
+++ b/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@
@item For matrix @var{l} > 10, use patchwork rejection method.\n\
Stadlober E., et al., WinRand source code, available via FTP, or\n\
H. Zechner, 'Efficient sampling from continuous and discrete\n\
-unimodal distributions', Doctoral Dissertaion, 156pp., Technical\n\
+unimodal distributions', Doctoral Dissertation, 156pp., Technical\n\
University Graz, Austria, 1994.\n\
@item For @var{l} > 1e8, use normal approximation.\n\
L. Montanet, et al., 'Review of Particle Properties', Physical Review\n\
changeset: 8321:f790d0693d1d
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] documenation => documentation
diff -r d160a7c53bdb -r f790d0693d1d doc/interpreter/install.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/install.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/install.txi
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
@strong{Note:} This file is automatically generated from
@file{doc/interpreter/install.txi} in the Octave sources, so to make
-changes to this documenation file, change that source file.
+changes to this documentation file, change that source file.
@node Installation
@chapter Installing Octave
changeset: 8322:8305a1cd0f1d
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] guarentee => guarantee
diff -r f790d0693d1d -r 8305a1cd0f1d doc/faq/Octave-FAQ.texi
--- a/doc/faq/Octave-FAQ.texi
+++ b/doc/faq/Octave-FAQ.texi
@@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@
@sc{Matlab}, however rethrow and lasterror are only available in Octave 2.9.10 and later.
Note that using @code{try}/@code{catch} combined with @samp{rethrow
-(lasterror ())} can not guarentee that global variables will be
+(lasterror ())} can not guarantee that global variables will be
correctly reset, as it won't catch user interrupts with Ctrl-C. For
example
diff -r f790d0693d1d -r 8305a1cd0f1d src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/matrix_type.cc
--- a/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/matrix_type.cc
+++ b/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/matrix_type.cc
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
matrix type.\n\
\n\
Also the test for positive definiteness is a low cost test for a hermitian\n\
-matrix with a real positive diagonal. This does not guarentee that the matrix\n\
+matrix with a real positive diagonal. This does not guarantee that the matrix\n\
is positive definite, but only that it is a probable candidate. When such a\n\
matrix is factorized, a Cholesky factorization is first attempted, and if\n\
that fails the matrix is then treated with an LU factorization. Once the\n\
changeset: 8323:406f553f9777
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] logial => logical
diff -r 8305a1cd0f1d -r 406f553f9777 doc/interpreter/numbers.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/numbers.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/numbers.txi
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@
@DOCSTRING(bitxor)
-The bitwise 'not' operator is unary operator that performs a logial
+The bitwise 'not' operator is unary operator that performs a logical
negation of each of the bits of the value. For this to make sense, the
mask against which the value is negated must be defined. Octave's
bitwise 'not' operator is @code{bitcmp}.
changeset: 8324:cc58fc8471be
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] magneta => magenta
diff -r 406f553f9777 -r cc58fc8471be scripts/image/gmap40.m
--- a/scripts/image/gmap40.m
+++ b/scripts/image/gmap40.m
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} gmap40 (@var{n})
## Create a color colormap. The colormap is red, green, blue, yellow,
-## magneta and cyan. These are the colors that are allowed with patch
+## magenta and cyan. These are the colors that are allowed with patch
## objects using gnuplot 4.0, and so this colormap function is specially
## designed for users of gnuplot 4.0. The argument @var{n} should be
## a scalar. If it is omitted, a length of 6 is assumed. Larger values
changeset: 8325:a0cbe49c14c6
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] ommitted => omitted
diff -r cc58fc8471be -r a0cbe49c14c6 scripts/plot/area.m
--- a/scripts/plot/area.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/area.m
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
## @code{plot (@var{x}, cumsum (@var{y}, 2))}, except that the area under
## the curve is shaded.
##
-## If the @var{x} argument is ommitted it is assumed to be given by
+## If the @var{x} argument is omitted it is assumed to be given by
## @code{1 : rows (@var{y})}. A value @var{lvl} can be defined that determines
## where the base level of the shading under the curve should be defined.
##
changeset: 8326:8ff0356e0133
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:17 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] ouput => output
diff -r a0cbe49c14c6 -r 8ff0356e0133 doc/interpreter/func.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/func.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/func.txi
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@
Image processing tools. These functions require the X Window System.
@item io
-Input-ouput functions.
+Input-output functions.
@item linear-algebra
Functions for linear algebra.
changeset: 8327:05af290cae9b
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:18 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] performace => performance
diff -r 8ff0356e0133 -r 05af290cae9b doc/interpreter/install.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/install.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/install.txi
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
@item --enable-bounds-check
Enable bounds checking for indexing operators in the internal array
classes. This option is primarily used for debugging Octave. Building
-Octave with this option has a negative impact on performace and is not
+Octave with this option has a negative impact on performance and is not
recommended for general use.
@item --enable-64
changeset: 8328:c104322390f1
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:18 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] psuedo => pseudo
diff -r 05af290cae9b -r c104322390f1 src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc
--- a/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc
+++ b/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@
available, otherwise from cpu time, wall clock time and the current\n\
fraction of a second.\n\
\n\
-To compute the psuedo-random sequence, @code{rand} uses the Mersenne\n\
+To compute the pseudo-random sequence, @code{rand} uses the Mersenne\n\
Twister with a period of 2^19937-1 (See M. Matsumoto and T. Nishimura,\n\
``Mersenne Twister: A 623-dimensionally\n\
equidistributed uniform pseudorandom number generator'', ACM Trans. on\n\
changeset: 8329:fc1d5a98fc6a
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:18 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] signle => single
diff -r c104322390f1 -r fc1d5a98fc6a scripts/miscellaneous/warning_ids.m
--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/warning_ids.m
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/warning_ids.m
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
## automatically in literal matrices.
##
## @item Octave:single-quote-string
-## Print warning if a signle quote character is used to introduce a
+## Print warning if a single quote character is used to introduce a
## string constant.
##
## @item Octave:str-to-num
changeset: 8330:da23a5d03584
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:18 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] subdiretories => subdirectories
diff -r fc1d5a98fc6a -r da23a5d03584 src/load-path.cc
--- a/src/load-path.cc
+++ b/src/load-path.cc
@@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@
DEFUN (genpath, args, ,
"-*- texinfo -*-\n\
@deftypefn {Built-in Function} {} genpath (@var{dir})\n\
-Return a path constructed from @var{dir} and all its subdiretories.\n\
+Return a path constructed from @var{dir} and all its subdirectories.\n\
@end deftypefn")
{
octave_value retval;
changeset: 8331:d06b93a2b5ad
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:18 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] SystemRequirments => SystemRequirements
diff -r da23a5d03584 -r d06b93a2b5ad doc/interpreter/package.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/package.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/package.txi
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@
@noindent
The developer is free to add additional arguments to the
@code{DESCRIPTION} file for their own purposes. One further detail to
-aid the packager is that the @code{SystemRequirments} and
+aid the packager is that the @code{SystemRequirements} and
@code{BuildRequires} keywords can have distribution dependent section,
and the automatic build process will use these. An example of the
format of this is
changeset: 8332:89804d42bc81
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:18 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] guarantied => guaranteed
diff -r d06b93a2b5ad -r 89804d42bc81 doc/interpreter/nonlin.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/nonlin.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/nonlin.txi
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
using the function @code{fsolve}, which is based on the @sc{Minpack}
subroutine @code{hybrd}. This is an iterative technique so a starting
point will have to be provided. This also has the consequence that
-convergence is not guarantied even if a solution exists.
+convergence is not guaranteed even if a solution exists.
@DOCSTRING(fsolve)
changeset: 8333:30ba59af3e87
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:18 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] teh => the
diff -r 89804d42bc81 -r 30ba59af3e87 scripts/image/image.m
--- a/scripts/image/image.m
+++ b/scripts/image/image.m
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} image (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{img})
## Display a matrix as a color image. The elements of @var{x} are indices
## into the current colormap, and the colormap will be scaled so that the
-## extremes of @var{x} are mapped to the extremes of teh colormap.
+## extremes of @var{x} are mapped to the extremes of the colormap.
##
## It first tries to use @code{gnuplot}, then @code{display} from
## @code{ImageMagick}, then @code{xv}, and then @code{xloadimage}.
changeset: 8334:23ad1bb192db
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:18 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] -by3 => -by-3
diff -r 30ba59af3e87 -r 23ad1bb192db doc/interpreter/image.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/image.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/image.txi
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
images, RGB images, binary images, and indexed images. A gray-scale
image is represented with an M-by-N matrix in which each
element corresponds to the intensity of a pixel. An RGB image is
-represented with an M-by-N-by3 array where each
+represented with an M-by-N-by-3 array where each
3-vector corresponds to the red, green, and blue intensities of each
pixel.
changeset: 8335:da061c642cae
tag: tip
user: Brian Gough <bjg at gnu.org>
date: Fri Nov 07 09:26:18 2008 -0500
summary: [docs] int => in
diff -r 23ad1bb192db -r da061c642cae doc/interpreter/install.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/install.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/install.txi
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
@itemize @bullet
@item
On some SCO systems, @code{info} fails to compile if
- at code{HAVE_TERMIOS_H} is defined int @file{config.h}. Simply removing
+ at code{HAVE_TERMIOS_H} is defined in @file{config.h}. Simply removing
the definition from @file{info/config.h} should allow it to compile.
@item
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