diff --git a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdrdao/cdrdao.ent b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdrdao/cdrdao.ent
index be5d27953d..437aaa57f0 100644
--- a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdrdao/cdrdao.ent
+++ b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdrdao/cdrdao.ent
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
-
+
diff --git a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdrtools/cdrtools-exp.xml b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdrtools/cdrtools-exp.xml
index 6b77474dcc..844779d079 100644
--- a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdrtools/cdrtools-exp.xml
+++ b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdrtools/cdrtools-exp.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ install directory from /opt/schily
to /usr.
DEFINSUSR=root DEFINSGRP=root: These
-commands install all programs with root.root ownership instead of the default
+commands install all programs with root:root ownership instead of the default
bin:bin.
diff --git a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdwriteutils.xml b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdwriteutils.xml
index 2e9a613038..9685dcc2b2 100644
--- a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdwriteutils.xml
+++ b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/cdwriteutils.xml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
This chapter contains information on CD-writing in
Linux. You will first have to configure your kernel for
-CD-writing. We start by
-discussing how to do this, then discuss installing the actual utilities.
+CD-writing, which is discussed first. After that,
+installing the acutal utilities is presented.
Additional sources of information on CD-writing include:
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ HOWTO
CD-Recordable
FAQ
-Handling CD-Images
-
&multimedia-cdwriteutils-kernel;
diff --git a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-desc.xml b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-desc.xml
index 226affb9e8..48741c6304 100644
--- a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-desc.xml
+++ b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-desc.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ access.
cdrwtool provides facilities to manage
CD-RW
drives, including formatting new disks, setting the read and write
-speeds etc..
+speeds, etc.
Example:
cdrwtool -d /dev/scd0 -q
prepares a new CD-RW for use and
diff --git a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-intro.xml b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-intro.xml
index 5e58c60e3a..660f2cc3c9 100644
--- a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-intro.xml
+++ b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-intro.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
The UDFtools package contains utilities
for creating and mounting CD-RW disks with
-udf file systems for both
+UDF file systems for both
reading and writing. UDF files systems are used on
both CD-RW media and
on DVD. For more details of the
diff --git a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-kernel-inst.xml b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-kernel-inst.xml
index a0debd7720..b16d403da8 100644
--- a/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-kernel-inst.xml
+++ b/multimedia/cdwriteutils/udftools/udftools-kernel-inst.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
Installation of the kernel patch
-Note that this patch can permenantly damage your CD drive if it is
+Note that this patch can permanently damage your
+CD drive if it is
from one of the few mentioned at
. Do
not apply the patch without first checking out the article.
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ File Systems
UDF filesystems support (read only): Y
UDF write support (DANGEROUS) Y
-If necessary, recompile the kernel with
+If necessary, recompile the kernel with:make CC=/opt/gcc-2.95.3/bin/gcc dep &&
make CC=/opt/gcc-2.95.3/bin/gcc bzImage &&
make CC=/opt/gcc-2.95.3/bin/gcc modules &&
@@ -31,11 +32,11 @@ make CC=/opt/gcc-2.95.3/bin/gcc modules_install
Copy /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage and
/usr/src/linux/System.map to
/boot. If you utilize
-LILO edit /etc/lilo.conf
+LILO, edit /etc/lilo.conf
appropriately and run lilo.
-If you build packet writer as a module, add the following to
+If you built packet writer as a module, add the following to
/etc/modules.conf:alias block-major-97 pktcdvd
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/avifile/avifile-desc.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/avifile/avifile-desc.xml
index d1834eacfb..92f6a2d883 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/avifile/avifile-desc.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/avifile/avifile-desc.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Video For Windows (vfw) compatible device, like a webcam or a TV-tuner.kv4lsetupkv4lsetup is a small tool which tells video4linux
-about the current video mode
+about the current video mode.avicatavicat takes a set of AVI files and
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-config.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-config.xml
index fe3b5146c3..680385f280 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-config.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-config.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ ln -sf font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-[font size]-i
You can chose your font size of 14, 18, 24 or 28.
-Set the proper permissions for CODECs, skins and fonts:
+Set the proper ownership for CODECs, skins and fonts:chown -R root:root [CODECs location] &&
chown -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-desc.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-desc.xml
index 1a58f2eba1..b14829e0a9 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-desc.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-desc.xml
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ mplayer -vo fbdev -fb /dev/fb0 dvd://1 -aid 128 -sub en -framedrop
mplayer -fs vcd://1 # works both for VCDs and SVCDs
mplayer http://www.students.uni-marburg.de/~Klossa/hapkidofight_lo.mpg
-For further information, have a look at the very good
-documentation included in the package in the subdirectory For further information, look at the very good
+documentation included with the package in the source tree subdirectory DOCS/.
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-inst.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-inst.xml
index d0a9dde076..42d25ca1fc 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-inst.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-inst.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ it:The GUI version of
MPlayer requires a skin. Extract the default
-one at recommended location:
+one to the recommended location:
install -d /usr/share/mplayer/Skin &&
tar xjvf ../default-1.8.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/mplayer/Skin
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ from your DVD drive to /dev/dvd:
ln -s /dev/[dvd drive] /dev/dvdReplace [dvd drive] with whatever
-device is appropriate, for example /dev/hdc. if
+device is appropriate, for example /dev/hdc. If
you don't know which device to choose, type:dmesg | grep DVD
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
If you have SCSI-Emulation activated for the drives, you'll need
to get the right SCSI-device. Every CD/DVD-ROM drive is mapped in the
-same order as in IDE to the devices named
+same order as in IDE devices to the devices named
/dev/scd0,
/dev/scd1 and so on.
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-intro.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-intro.xml
index 2e456c2453..2f265e4c12 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-intro.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer/mplayer-intro.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
Introduction to MPlayerThe MPlayer package contains an audio/video player that is able to
-play almost every audio and video CODEC and can be controlled by command
-line or GUI.
+play almost every audio and video CODEC and can be
+controlled via the command
+line or a GUI.
Package information
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.b
-These are not required to build and use MPlayer. You can
+The additional downloads are not required to build and use MPlayer. You can
find many more CODECs, skins and fonts at MPlayer's homepage.
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-desc.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-desc.xml
index 08ce231abc..0eca9f4025 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-desc.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-desc.xml
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ and input/filter/output modules.transcodetranscode is the encoder's user interface that handles
the plugins and other programs, being the glue between the modules.
-There are several well documented usage examples on either the homepage
-or the documentation included in the package.
+There are several well documented usage examples on both the homepage
+and the documentation included in the package.tccattccat concatenates input files using the input plugins
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ input data.
AVI file.
avidump
-avidump dumps audio or video stream of an given
+avidump dumps audio or video stream of a given
AVI file to stdout (for AVI
conversion or extraction of audio streams).
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-exp.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-exp.xml
index 3666efa37a..85c1c40549 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-exp.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-exp.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
Command explanations
---without-x: Omit this switch if you have X
+--without-x: Omit this switch if you have
+an X
Window System installed and you want to compile X11 dependent filter
plugins.
diff --git a/multimedia/videoutils/videoutils.xml b/multimedia/videoutils/videoutils.xml
index f9faa3e966..c63c468112 100644
--- a/multimedia/videoutils/videoutils.xml
+++ b/multimedia/videoutils/videoutils.xml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
This chapter always seems to be the favorite chapter. It's
probably because there is a lot of satisfaction in playing your first
-video when you have spent so much time getting to that point. All the
-libraries, all the configurations and your reward is that you get to
+video when you have spent so much time getting to that point. All those
+libraries, all the configurations and your reward is that you finally get to
watch a movie. Not to worry though, there is always one more
CODEC to install.
diff --git a/pst/printing/cups/cups-config.xml b/pst/printing/cups/cups-config.xml
index 446c0628d6..a7400aa5b7 100644
--- a/pst/printing/cups/cups-config.xml
+++ b/pst/printing/cups/cups-config.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ printers are easier. For detailed instructions on configuration and use of
. The Software
Administrators Manual and Software Users Manual are particularly useful.
-For non-PostScript printers to print with CUPS you need to install
+For non-PostScript printers to print with CUPS, you need to install
to convert PostScript to raster images
and a driver (e.g., from ) to convert
the resulting raster images to a form that the printer understands.
diff --git a/pst/printing/cups/cups-desc.xml b/pst/printing/cups/cups-desc.xml
index 27fe7c9ddd..67d7af54c0 100644
--- a/pst/printing/cups/cups-desc.xml
+++ b/pst/printing/cups/cups-desc.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ and class queues provided by CUPS
reject
-reject reject instructs the printing system to
+reject instructs the printing system to
reject print jobs to the specified destinations.
diff --git a/pst/printing/gimp-print/gimp-print-desc.xml b/pst/printing/gimp-print/gimp-print-desc.xml
index abb2bdc5db..f7a539ecc2 100644
--- a/pst/printing/gimp-print/gimp-print-desc.xml
+++ b/pst/printing/gimp-print/gimp-print-desc.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
rastertoprinter filter for
CUPS that converts
the output of pstoraster to a form
-understandable by printer,
+understandable by printers,
and a plugin that allows printing images from
GIMP-1.2.5.
diff --git a/pst/printing/lprng/lprng-config.xml b/pst/printing/lprng/lprng-config.xml
index 29a0c884e5..9996049271 100644
--- a/pst/printing/lprng/lprng-config.xml
+++ b/pst/printing/lprng/lprng-config.xml
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
There is no generic printcap for all
printers. A sample printcap is loaded into the etc
-directory which can be some help. Information is also available at
+directory which can be of some help. Information is also available at
and .The init script installed by LPRng is not
-consistent with other BLFS scripts; therefore, we will install
-/etc/rc.d/init.d/lprng
+consistent with other BLFS scripts; therefore, install
+the /etc/rc.d/init.d/lprng
init script included in the package.make install-lprng
diff --git a/pst/scanning/sane/sane-exp.xml b/pst/scanning/sane/sane-exp.xml
index f657b0bbd1..1778099d30 100644
--- a/pst/scanning/sane/sane-exp.xml
+++ b/pst/scanning/sane/sane-exp.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
Installation command explanations
---prefix=/usr: This switch installs all
-software in directories relative to
-/usr.
-
--sysconfdir=/etc: This switch installs the
configuration files in /etc/sane.d
instead of /usr/etc/sane.d.
diff --git a/pst/scanning/scanning.xml b/pst/scanning/scanning.xml
index d7bb91d147..ca99dd56a8 100644
--- a/pst/scanning/scanning.xml
+++ b/pst/scanning/scanning.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
Scanning
-This chapter contains scanning applications which allow us to
+This chapter contains scanning applications which allow you to
convert printed documents into formatted documents readable by other
applications.
diff --git a/pst/sgml/openjade/openjade-exp.xml b/pst/sgml/openjade/openjade-exp.xml
index f5e35d6963..b6450c98de 100644
--- a/pst/sgml/openjade/openjade-exp.xml
+++ b/pst/sgml/openjade/openjade-exp.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ the building of the static library.
for HTTP.
--enable-default-catalog=/etc/sgml/catalog: This
-switch sets the path to our centralized catalog.
+switch sets the path to the centralized catalog.
: This switch
sets the default value of SGML_SEARCH_PATH.
diff --git a/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-desc.xml b/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-desc.xml
index f57ef08c3e..f6b788148b 100644
--- a/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-desc.xml
+++ b/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-desc.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
Descriptiononsgmls
-onsgmls process SGML files.
+onsgmls processes SGML files.ospamospam is a markup stream editor.
diff --git a/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-exp.xml b/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-exp.xml
index e9fddf6a4c..8aeabe38e6 100644
--- a/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-exp.xml
+++ b/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-exp.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ the building of the static library.
for HTTP.
--enable-default-catalog=/etc/sgml/catalog: This
-switch sets the path to our centralized catalog.
+switch sets the path to the centralized catalog.
: This switch
sets the default value of SGML_SEARCH_PATH.
diff --git a/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-intro.xml b/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-intro.xml
index 2bf1efd3af..54f23b8578 100644
--- a/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-intro.xml
+++ b/pst/sgml/opensp/opensp-intro.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
Introduction to OpenSPThe OpenSP package contains a
-C++ Library for using
+C++ library for using
SGML/XML files.
This is useful for validating, parsing and manipulating
SGML and XML
diff --git a/pst/sgml/sgml-common/sgml-common-inst.xml b/pst/sgml/sgml-common/sgml-common-inst.xml
index 237d4240a7..c2d324be85 100644
--- a/pst/sgml/sgml-common/sgml-common-inst.xml
+++ b/pst/sgml/sgml-common/sgml-common-inst.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
patch -Np1 -i ../sgml-common-0.6.3-manpage-1.patch
-The autotools files included along with sgml-common are old. Use the following
+The autotools files included with sgml-common are old. Use the following
commands to regenerate the files.aclocal &&