Re: Text improvements

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:19:42PM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
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> The quality of the texts is good, but there will always be something to 
> improve to be near excellent.
> 
> Now I did a 'svn co' of the large beast.
> 
> To whom or to which list should I send patches of suggested improvements?

This ML, debian-boot@l.d.o

> The originating source of the messages is
> 
>   /trunk/packages/$PACKAGE/debian/$PACKAGE.templates
> 
> right?
> 
> I assume you like 'diff -u'.

Yes, unified diffs are readable by computers AND Humans.

Advice: use `svn diff`, it generates an unified diff by default.

> 
> As spell checks are regularly done, I will begin with 'wording 
> consistancy'. E.g. 'resume' is a synonym of 'continue' (or 'choose' 
> versus 'select'), and IMHO 'continue' is better understandable to non 
> natives.
> 
> Helmut Wollmersdorfer
> 

Cheers
Geert Stappers