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authorAnthony Geoghegan <anthony.geoghegan@gmail.com>2016-12-03 20:17:27 +0000
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2016-12-03 21:17:27 +0100
commit733b1f3ae2074cce3eb25fbbed7b4d367aff7ebd (patch)
tree132a082cd20f6f1cff0bc0fb39c655220c1b09c4 /MANUAL.txt
parent3dacf5b5e76e9ef74680f36ef9a51feab4647410 (diff)
Minor spelling typos in the manual (#3273)
* Fix spelling typos: * hightlight * respecitively * codeblock – inconsistent with rest of document using “code block” * Use consistent case for proper nouns. For example: “ASCII”, “Unicode”, “Latin”, “JavaScript”, “CSS”.
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@@ -284,11 +284,11 @@ General options
(Haddock markup), `rtf` (rich text format), `epub` (EPUB v2
book), `epub3` (EPUB v3), `fb2` (FictionBook2 e-book),
`asciidoc` (AsciiDoc), `icml` (InDesign ICML), `tei` (TEI
- Simple), `slidy` (Slidy HTML and javascript slide show),
- `slideous` (Slideous HTML and javascript slide show),
- `dzslides` (DZSlides HTML5 + javascript slide show),
- `revealjs` (reveal.js HTML5 + javascript slide show), `s5`
- (S5 HTML and javascript slide show), or the path of a custom
+ Simple), `slidy` (Slidy HTML and JavaScript slide show),
+ `slideous` (Slideous HTML and JavaScript slide show),
+ `dzslides` (DZSlides HTML5 + JavaScript slide show),
+ `revealjs` (reveal.js HTML5 + JavaScript slide show), `s5`
+ (S5 HTML and JavaScript slide show), or the path of a custom
lua writer (see [Custom writers], below). Note that `odt`,
`epub`, and `epub3` output will not be directed to *stdout*;
an output filename must be specified using the `-o/--output`
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ General writer options
: Include contents of *FILE*, verbatim, at the end of the header.
This can be used, for example, to include special
- CSS or javascript in HTML documents. This option can be used
+ CSS or JavaScript in HTML documents. This option can be used
repeatedly to include multiple files in the header. They will be
included in the order specified. Implies `--standalone`.
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ Options affecting specific writers
`--ascii`
-: Use only ascii characters in output. Currently supported only
+: Use only ASCII characters in output. Currently supported only
for HTML output (which uses numerical entities instead of
UTF-8 when this option is selected).
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ Options affecting specific writers
`--atx-headers`
-: Use ATX-style headers in Markdown and asciidoc output. The default is
+: Use ATX-style headers in Markdown and AsciiDoc output. The default is
to use setext-style headers for levels 1-2, and then ATX headers.
`--chapters`
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ Options affecting specific writers
: Specify a method for obfuscating `mailto:` links in HTML documents.
`none` leaves `mailto:` links as they are. `javascript` obfuscates
- them using javascript. `references` obfuscates them by printing their
+ them using JavaScript. `references` obfuscates them by printing their
letters as decimal or hexadecimal character references. The default
is `none`.
@@ -966,7 +966,7 @@ Math rendering in HTML
`--mathml`[`=`*URL*]
: Convert TeX math to [MathML] (in `docbook`, `docbook5`, `html` and `html5`).
- In standalone `html` output, a small javascript (or a link to such a
+ In standalone `html` output, a small JavaScript (or a link to such a
script if a *URL* is supplied) will be inserted that allows the MathML to
be viewed on some browsers.
@@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ If the `--section-divs` option is specified, then each section will
be wrapped in a `div` (or a `section`, if `--html5` was specified),
and the identifier will be attached to the enclosing `<div>`
(or `<section>`) tag rather than the header itself. This allows entire
-sections to be manipulated using javascript or treated differently in
+sections to be manipulated using JavaScript or treated differently in
CSS.
#### Extension: `implicit_header_references` ####
@@ -1851,7 +1851,7 @@ This is equivalent to:
```
If the `fenced_code_attributes` extension is disabled, but
-input contains class attribute(s) for the codeblock, the first
+input contains class attribute(s) for the code block, the first
class attribute will be printed after the opening fence as a bare
word.
@@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@ and this one:
Unlike standard Markdown, pandoc allows ordered list items to be marked
with uppercase and lowercase letters and roman numerals, in addition to
-arabic numerals. List markers may be enclosed in parentheses or followed by a
+Arabic numerals. List markers may be enclosed in parentheses or followed by a
single right-parentheses or period. They must be separated from the
text that follows by at least one space, and, if the list marker is a
capital letter with a period, by at least two spaces.[^2]
@@ -2774,13 +2774,13 @@ Textile
~ It will be rendered inside `<span class="math">` tags.
RTF, OpenDocument, ODT
- ~ It will be rendered, if possible, using unicode characters,
+ ~ It will be rendered, if possible, using Unicode characters,
and will otherwise appear verbatim.
DocBook
~ If the `--mathml` flag is used, it will be rendered using MathML
in an `inlineequation` or `informalequation` tag. Otherwise it
- will be rendered, if possible, using unicode characters.
+ will be rendered, if possible, using Unicode characters.
Docx
~ It will be rendered using OMML math markup.
@@ -2794,7 +2794,7 @@ HTML, Slidy, DZSlides, S5, EPUB
~ The way math is rendered in HTML will depend on the
command-line options selected:
- 1. The default is to render TeX math as far as possible using unicode
+ 1. The default is to render TeX math as far as possible using Unicode
characters, as with RTF, DocBook, and OpenDocument output. Formulas
are put inside a `span` with `class="math"`, so that they may be
styled differently from the surrounding text if needed.
@@ -3471,7 +3471,7 @@ pointy braces `<...>`.
#### Extension: `ascii_identifiers` ####
Causes the identifiers produced by `auto_identifiers` to be pure ASCII.
-Accents are stripped off of accented latin letters, and non-latin
+Accents are stripped off of accented Latin letters, and non-Latin
letters are omitted.
#### Extension: `mmd_link_attributes` ####
@@ -3563,7 +3563,7 @@ other than Markdown:
Producing slide shows with pandoc
=================================
-You can use pandoc to produce an HTML + javascript slide presentation
+You can use pandoc to produce an HTML + JavaScript slide presentation
that can be viewed via a web browser. There are five ways to do this,
using [S5], [DZSlides], [Slidy], [Slideous], or [reveal.js].
You can also produce a PDF slide show using LaTeX [`beamer`].
@@ -3602,19 +3602,19 @@ Here's the Markdown source for a simple slide show, `habits.txt`:
- Get in bed
- Count sheep
-To produce an HTML/javascript slide show, simply type
+To produce an HTML/JavaScript slide show, simply type
pandoc -t FORMAT -s habits.txt -o habits.html
where `FORMAT` is either `s5`, `slidy`, `slideous`, `dzslides`, or `revealjs`.
For Slidy, Slideous, reveal.js, and S5, the file produced by pandoc with the
-`-s/--standalone` option embeds a link to javascripts and CSS files, which are
+`-s/--standalone` option embeds a link to JavaScript and CSS files, which are
assumed to be available at the relative path `s5/default` (for S5), `slideous`
(for Slideous), `reveal.js` (for reveal.js), or at the Slidy website at
`w3.org` (for Slidy). (These paths can be changed by setting the `slidy-url`,
`slideous-url`, `revealjs-url`, or `s5-url` variables; see [Variables for slides],
-above.) For DZSlides, the (relatively short) javascript and css are included in
+above.) For DZSlides, the (relatively short) JavaScript and CSS are included in
the file by default.
With all HTML slide formats, the `--self-contained` option can be used to
@@ -3934,7 +3934,7 @@ The color scheme can be selected using the `--highlight-style` option.
The default color scheme is `pygments`, which imitates the default color
scheme used by the Python library pygments (though pygments is not actually
used to do the highlighting). To see a list of highlight styles,
-type `pandoc --list-hightlight-styles`.
+type `pandoc --list-highlight-styles`.
To disable highlighting, use the `--no-highlight` option.
@@ -3949,7 +3949,7 @@ formatting (italics, bold) for inlines. This will work for most
purposes, especially alongside a `reference.docx` file. However, if you
need to apply your own styles to blocks, or match a preexisting set of
styles, pandoc allows you to define custom styles for blocks and text
-using `div`s and `span`s, respecitively.
+using `div`s and `span`s, respectively.
If you define a `div` or `span` with the attribute `custom-style`,
pandoc will apply your specified style to the contained elements. So,