Bug 54999

Summary: Documentation Project Primer doesn't conform to style guide
Product: Documentation Reporter: Steven James Huwig <sjh13>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
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Description Steven James Huwig 2003-07-29 00:10:17 UTC
        Chapter 10 of the FDP Primer reads "Use American English Spelling,"
        yet there are many instances of the British versions of words (e.g.
        'organise,' 'normalise,' et cetera.

Fix: Attached are diffs correcting "ise" words to their "ize" equivalents.




<para>To avoid confusion, these examples use the standard DocBook 3.1 DTD
     rather than the FreeBSD extension.  They also use the stock stylesheets
-    distributed by Norm Walsh, rather than any customisations made to those
+    distributed by Norm Walsh, rather than any customizations made to those
     stylesheets by the FreeBSD Documentation Project.  This makes them more
     useful as generic DocBook examples.</para>

@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@

 	<calloutlist>
 	  <callout arearefs="examples-co-jade-3-tex-backend">
-	    <para>Customises the stylesheets to use various options
+	    <para>Customizes the stylesheets to use various options
 	      specific to producing output for TeX.</para>
 	  </callout>




<sect3>
-	<title>Emphasising information</title>
+	<title>Emphasizing information</title>

 	<para>You have two levels of emphasis available in HTML,
 	  <sgmltag>em</sgmltag> and <sgmltag>strong</sgmltag>.
@@ -482,8 +482,8 @@

 	  <para>Use:</para>

-	  <programlisting><![ CDATA [<p><em>This</em> has been emphasised, while
-  <strong>this</strong> has been strongly emphasised.</p>]]></programlisting>
+	  <programlisting><![ CDATA [<p><em>This</em> has been emphasized, while
+  <strong>this</strong> has been strongly emphasized.</p>]]></programlisting>
 	</example>
       </sect3>

@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@
       <title>Formal Public Identifier (FPI)</title>

       <para>In compliance with the DocBook guidelines for writing FPIs for
-	  DocBook customisations, the FPI for the FreeBSD extended DocBook DTD
+	  DocBook customizations, the FPI for the FreeBSD extended DocBook DTD
 	  is;</para>

 	<programlisting>PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN"</programlisting>
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@

       <para>A book is organized into <sgmltag>chapter</sgmltag>s.  This is a
 	mandatory requirement.  There may be <sgmltag>part</sgmltag>s between
-	the book and the chapter to provide another layer of organisation.
+	the book and the chapter to provide another layer of organization.
 	The Handbook is arranged in this way.</para>

       <para>A chapter may (or may not) contain one or more sections.  These
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@
       <sect3>
 	<title>Subdividing using <sgmltag>part</sgmltag>s</title>

-	<para>You can introduce another layer of organisation between
+	<para>You can introduce another layer of organization between
 	  <sgmltag>book</sgmltag> and <sgmltag>chapter</sgmltag> with one or
 	  more <sgmltag>part</sgmltag>s.  This cannot be done in an
 	  <sgmltag>article</sgmltag>.</para>
@@ -1573,9 +1573,9 @@
       <title>In-line elements</title>

       <sect3>
-	<title>Emphasising information</title>
+	<title>Emphasizing information</title>

-	<para>When you want to emphasise a particular word or phrase, use
+	<para>When you want to emphasize a particular word or phrase, use
 	  <sgmltag>emphasis</sgmltag>.  This may be presented as italic, or
 	  bold, or might be spoken differently with a text-to-speech
 	  system.</para>
@@ -2579,7 +2579,7 @@
   in <xref linkend="chapter1-sect1">.</para>]]></programlisting>

 	  <para>The text of the link will be generated automatically, and will
-	    look like (<emphasis>emphasised</emphasis> text indicates the text
+	    look like (<emphasis>emphasized</emphasis> text indicates the text
 	    that will be the link);</para>

 	  <blockquote>
@@ -2620,7 +2620,7 @@
   <link linkend="chapter1-sect1">this</link> section.</para>]]></programlisting>

 	  <para>This will generate the following
-	    (<emphasis>emphasised</emphasis> text indicates the text that will
+	    (<emphasis>emphasized</emphasis> text indicates the text that will
 	    be the link);</para>

 	  <blockquote>



<para>For an element called <replaceable>element-name</replaceable> the
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
       <title>Elements within elements; <sgmltag>em</sgmltag></title>

       <programlisting><![ CDATA [<p>This is a simple <em>paragraph</em> where some
-  of the <em>words</em> have been <em>emphasised</em>.</p>]]></programlisting>
+  of the <em>words</em> have been <em>emphasized</em>.</p>]]></programlisting>
     </example>

     <para>The DTD will specify the rules detailing which elements can contain
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@

 	    <para>ISO 9070:1991 defines how registered names are generated; it
 	      might be derived from the number of an ISO publication, an ISBN
-	      code, or an organisation code assigned according to ISO 6523.
+	      code, or an organization code assigned according to ISO 6523.
 	      In addition, a registration authority could be created in order
 	      to assign registered names.  The ISO council delegated this to
 	      the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).</para>
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@
       your document.  Everything between these delimiters is SGML syntax as
       you might find within a DTD.</para>

-    <para>As you may just have realised, the <link
+    <para>As you may just have realized, the <link
 	linkend="sgml-primer-doctype-declaration">DOCTYPE declaration</link>
       is an example of SGML syntax that you need to include in your
       document&hellip;</para>
@@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@
 	<step>
 	  <para>Load <filename>example.sgml</filename> into your web browser
 	    (you may need to copy it to <filename>example.html</filename>
-	    before your browser recognises it as an HTML document).</para>
+	    before your browser recognizes it as an HTML document).</para>

 	  <para>Unless your browser is very advanced, you will not see the entity
 	    reference <literal>&amp;version;</literal> replaced with the
@@ -1064,10 +1064,10 @@
 	</step>

 	<step>
-	  <para>The solution is to <emphasis>normalise</emphasis> your
-	    document using an SGML normaliser.  The normaliser reads in valid
+	  <para>The solution is to <emphasis>normalize</emphasis> your
+	    document using an SGML normalizer.  The normalizer reads in valid
 	    SGML and outputs equally valid SGML which has been transformed in
-	    some way.  One of the ways in which the normaliser transforms the
+	    some way.  One of the ways in which the normalizer transforms the
 	    SGML is to expand all the entity references in the document,
 	    replacing the entities with the text that they represent.</para>

@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@

           <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>sgmlnorm example.sgml > example.html</userinput></screen>

-	  <para>You should find a normalised (i.e., entity references
+	  <para>You should find a normalized (i.e., entity references
 	    expanded) copy of your document in
 	    <filename>example.html</filename>, ready to load into your web
 	    browser.</para>
@@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@
 	entities.</para>

       <para>Suppose that you had many chapters in your document, and you
-	reused these chapters in two different books, each book organising the
+	reused these chapters in two different books, each book organizing the
 	chapters in a different fashion.</para>

       <para>You could list the entities at the top of each book, but this
@@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@
 	  </step>

 	  <step>
-	    <para>Produce <filename>example.html</filename> by normalising
+	    <para>Produce <filename>example.html</filename> by normalizing
 	      <filename>example.sgml</filename>.</para>

             <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>sgmlnorm -d example.sgml > example.html</userinput></screen>
@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@
 	  </step>

 	  <step>
-	    <para>Produce <filename>example.html</filename> by normalising
+	    <para>Produce <filename>example.html</filename> by normalizing
 	      <filename>example.sgml</filename>.</para>

             <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>sgmlnorm -d example.sgml > example.html</userinput></screen>
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@
 	  from your document you could cut it out, or wrap it in
 	  comments.</para>

-	<para>It becomes more useful when you realise you can use <link
+	<para>It becomes more useful when you realize you can use <link
 	    linkend="sgml-primer-parameter-entities">parameter entities</link>
 	  to control this.  Remember that parameter entities can only be used
 	  in SGML contexts, and the keyword of a marked section
@@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@
 	</step>

 	<step>
-	  <para>Normalise this file using &man.sgmlnorm.1; and examine the
+	  <para>Normalize this file using &man.sgmlnorm.1; and examine the
 	    output.  Notice which paragraphs have appeared, which have
 	    disappeared, and what has happened to the content of the CDATA
 	    marked section.</para>
@@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@
 	<step>
 	  <para>Change the definition of the <literal>text.output</literal>
 	    entity from <literal>INCLUDE</literal> to
-	    <literal>IGNORE</literal>.  Re-normalise the file, and examine the
+	    <literal>IGNORE</literal>.  Re-normalize the file, and examine the
 	    output to see what has changed.  </para>
 	</step>
       </procedure>
@@ -1564,7 +1564,7 @@
     <para>That is the conclusion of this SGML primer.  For reasons of space
       and complexity several things have not been covered in depth (or at
       all).  However, the previous sections cover enough SGML for you to be
-      able to follow the organisation of the FDP documentation.</para>
+      able to follow the organization of the FDP documentation.</para>
   </sect1>
 </chapter>



<listitem>
       <para>promote consistency between the different documentation
-	organisations, to make it easier to switch between working on
+	organizations, to make it easier to switch between working on
 	different documents</para>
     </listitem>

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@

 	<seg>Contains files that are not specific to the various translations
 	  and encodings of the documentation.  Contains subdirectories to
-	  further categorise the information.  For example, the files that
+	  further categorize the information.  For example, the files that
 	  comprise the &man.make.1; infrastructure are in
 	  <filename>share/mk</filename>, while the additional SGML support
 	  files (such as the FreeBSD extended DocBook DTD) are in



-    <para>The Documentation Project uses a slightly customised version of
+    <para>The Documentation Project uses a slightly customized version of
       Norm Walsh's modular DocBook stylesheets.</para>

     <para>These can be found in
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
       found in <filename>doc/share/sgml/freebsd.dsl</filename>.  It is well
       commented, and pending completion of this section you are encouraged to
       examine that file to see how some of the available options in the
-      standard stylesheets have been configured in order to customise the
+      standard stylesheets have been configured in order to customize the
       output for the FreeBSD Documentation Project.  That file also contains
       examples showing how to extend the elements that the stylesheet
       understands, which is how the FreeBSD specific elements have been



<listitem>
 	    <para>A suite of applications, including a validating SGML parser,
-	      and an SGML normaliser.</para>
+	      and an SGML normalizer.</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>





<answer>
 	<para><phrase>i18n</phrase> means
-	  <phrase>internationalisation</phrase> and <phrase>l10n</phrase>
-	  means <phrase>localisation</phrase>. They are just a convenient
+	  <phrase>internationalization</phrase> and <phrase>l10n</phrase>
+	  means <phrase>localization</phrase>. They are just a convenient
 	  shorthand.</para>

 	<para><phrase>i18n</phrase> can be read as <quote>i</quote> followed by
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@

 	<para>First, decide whether or not you have got the time to spare. Since
 	  you are the only person working on your language at the moment it is
-	  going to be your responsibility to publicise your work and
+	  going to be your responsibility to publicize your work and
 	  coordinate any volunteers that might want to help you.</para>

 	<para>Write an e-mail to the Documentation Project mailing list,--Rn6Lf86RiwxMQEl6VcWE3bnqZWyUigMqT3PkhdIhcM1bfOpo
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--- examples/appendix.sgml.orig	Mon Jul 28 17:41:22 2003
+++ examples/appendix.sgml	Mon Jul 28 17:26:14 2003
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
Comment 1 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-08-02 07:01:25 UTC
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