gnuplot manual misprint (no.35)

[Shigeharu T. <sh...@ie...>]

shige 02/22 2011
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In docs/gnuplot.doc of current CVS version

 C RCS $Id: gnuplot.doc,v 1.651 2011/02/21 17:58:39 markisch Exp $

I found the following points:

1) they may not be referenced by the .tex document translated by
  doc2tex (`start-up`, `positive`, `negative`, `Time/date`, and
  `Seeking-assistance`)
2) they may be misprints (strings -> string, stdout -> string,
  interpolation -> interpolate)
3) they may not be translated to tabular lines correctly in win 
  help (for rand) 

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--- gnuplot.doc.ORG	2011-02-22 19:28:07.000000000 +0900
+++ gnuplot.doc	2011-02-22 19:32:49.000000000 +0900
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@
  If GNUTERM is defined, it is used as the name of the terminal type to be
  used.  This overrides any terminal type sensed by `gnuplot` on start-up, but
  is itself overridden by the .gnuplot (or equivalent) start-up file
- (see `start-up`) and, of course, by later explicit changes.
+ (see `startup`) and, of course, by later explicit changes.
 
  GNUHELP may be defined to be the pathname of the HELP file (gnuplot.gih).
 
@@ -854,11 +854,11 @@
 ^<tr>	<td>gprintf("format",x)</td>	<td>any</td>	<td>string result from applying gnuplot's format parser</td></tr>
 ^<tr>	<td>sprintf("format",x,...)</td>	<td>multiple</td>	<td>string result from C-language sprintf</td></tr>
 ^<tr>	<td>strlen("string")</td>	<td>string</td>	<td>int length of string</td></tr>
-^<tr>	<td>strstrt("string","key")</td>	<td>strings</td>	<td>int index of first character of substring "key"</td></tr>
+^<tr>	<td>strstrt("string","key")</td>	<td>string</td>	<td>int index of first character of substring "key"</td></tr>
 ^<tr>	<td>substr("string",beg,end)</td>	<td>multiple</td>	<td>string "string"[beg:end]</td></tr>
 ^<tr>	<td>strftime("timeformat",t)</td>	<td>any</td>	<td>string result from applying gnuplot's time parser</td></tr>
 ^<tr>	<td>strptime("timeformat",s)</td>	<td>string</td>	<td>seconds since year 2000 as given in string s</td></tr>
-^<tr>	<td>system("command")</td>	<td>string</td>	<td>stdout containing output stream of shell command</td></tr>
+^<tr>	<td>system("command")</td>	<td>string</td>	<td>string containing output stream of shell command</td></tr>
 ^<tr>	<td>word("string",n)</td>	<td>string, int</td>	<td>returns the nth word in "string"</td></tr>
 ^<tr>	<td>words("string")</td>	<td>string</td>	<td>returns the number of words in "string"</td></tr>
 ^</tbody>
@@ -1226,10 +1226,10 @@
 ?rand
 #rand(x) & int & pseudo random number in the interval [0:1] \\
 %rand(x)@int@pseudo random number in the interval [0:1]
- `rand(0)`  returns a pseudo random number in the interval [0:1]
- `rand(-1)` resets both seeds to a standard value.
- `rand(x)`  for integer 0 < x < 2^31-1 sets both internal seeds to x
- `rand({x,y})` for integer 0 < x,y < 2^31-1 sets seed1 to x and seed2 to y.
+  `rand(0)`  returns a pseudo random number in the interval [0:1]
+  `rand(-1)` resets both seeds to a standard value.
+  `rand(x)`  for integer 0 < x < 2^31-1 sets both internal seeds to x
+  `rand({x,y})` for integer 0 < x,y < 2^31-1 sets seed1 to x and seed2 to y.
 4 real
 ?expressions functions real
 ?functions real
@@ -9960,7 +9960,7 @@
  is interpolated m-times and n-times in the respective direction.  For negative
  m and n, the interpolation frequency is chosen so that there will be at least
  |m| and |n| points drawn; you can consider this as a special gridding function.
- Zeros, i.e. `interpolation 0,0`, will automatically choose an optimal number of
+ Zeros, i.e. `interpolate 0,0`, will automatically choose an optimal number of
  interpolated surface points.
 4 deprecated_options
 ?pm3d deprecated_options
@@ -10106,7 +10106,7 @@
  mapping functions are listed by `show palette rgbformulae`.  Default is
  `7,5,15`, some other examples are `3,11,6`, `21,23,3` or `3,23,21`.  Negative
  numbers, like `3,-11,-6`, mean inverted color (i.e.  1-gray passed into the
- formula, see also `positive` and `negative` options below).
+ formula).
 
  Some nice schemes in RGB color space
     7,5,15   ... traditional pm3d (black-blue-red-yellow)
@@ -11438,7 +11438,7 @@
  the UNIX98 spec, but conventions vary widely and two-digit year values are
  inherently ambiguous.
 
- See also `set xdata` and `Time/date` for more information.
+ See also `set xdata` and `time/date` for more information.
 
  Example:
        set timefmt "%d/%m/%Y\t%H:%M"
@@ -11697,7 +11697,7 @@
  for this  unless the `set format x "string"` has supplied something that does
  not look like a decimal format (more than one '%' or neither %f nor %g).
 
- See also `Time/date` for more information.
+ See also `time/date` for more information.
 3 xdtics
 ?commands set xdtics
 ?commands unset xdtics
@@ -12972,7 +12972,7 @@
  Or upload the report to the gnuplot web site on SourceForge.
  Please give complete information on the version of gnuplot you are using
  and, if possible, a test script that demonstrates the bug.
- See `Seeking-assistance`.
+ See `seeking-assistance`.
 
  The sections below list problems known to be present in gnuplot version 4.4 at
  the time of release.  Some of these are actually bugs in external support
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