Manual problems in X11Basic-1.25.tar
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There are many spelling errors in the X11-Basic manual contained in the file
/X11Basic-1.25/doc/manual/Outputs/X11-Basic-manual-1.25.txt
Some errors I have noticed include
Hoffmann > Hooemann
file > ole
files > oles
first > orst
Configuration > Conoguration
programming > proX11-Basic1grAboutamX11-Basicming
efficient>eOEcient
sufficient > suOEcient
effort > eoeort
finished > onished
These are spelling errors from the title page, table of contents, and page 1 of the documentation.
Combined with the page runoff issues in the PDF documentation, this makes the program almost useless to me. I was hoping to use this as a programming solution instead of trying to learn X11 graphics programming.
Do you have a usable version of the manual available?
Roger
The .txt file is created from the .pdf (or better say .dvi) file by extracting the ascii text content. Obviously the fi ligatures and ff and some others do not translate well. I consider this a bug in the tool dvi2tty.
I recommend to use the .pdf version of the manual. Please imagine that it is hard to keep different formats of the manual in sync. Any good ideas how to do it better are welcomed.
Last edit: Markus Hoffmann 2017-03-03
BTW: The sources for the manual can be found here:
https://gitlab.com/kollo/X11Basic/tree/master/doc/manual
I have improved this now: pstotext is used for creating the .txt manual from the pdf. Page runoffs should have been fixed a long time ago (last year or so) already. The next releases will have this improved...