<newsletter:master> Minor grammatical and English spelling corrections.

Frank Lanitz git-noreply at xxxxx
Mon Mar 7 19:24:02 UTC 2011


Updating branch refs/heads/master
         to b369df9cb040445f16da6c3928285c5c9cc27343 (commit)
       from 790acb374d8138ca16c1c36d71dcb605dfeb170c (commit)

commit b369df9cb040445f16da6c3928285c5c9cc27343
Author: Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
Date:   Mon Mar 7 20:21:45 2011 +0100

    Minor grammatical and English spelling corrections.
    
    Patch by Russell Dickenson, thanks very much.

 newsletter_1.tex |   37 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/newsletter_1.tex b/newsletter_1.tex
index 6b65c73..1588dfe 100644
--- a/newsletter_1.tex
+++ b/newsletter_1.tex
@@ -40,9 +40,8 @@ Have fun and happy coding!
 
 \section{Geany 0.20 has been released}
 
-On January, 6th version 0.20 of Geany "Disra" was released. As always
-the release containing a number of bug fixes as well as
-improvements and new features.
+On January 2011, the 6th version 0.20 of Geany "Disra" was released. As always
+the release contained a number of bug fixes as well as improvements and new features.
 
 Some of the highlights:
 
@@ -75,14 +74,14 @@ and so it has quite a number of changes and some new plugins:
 
 \textbf{UpdateChecker} implements a check for new
 releases of Geany and notifies the user when one is
-available. Its based on \texttt{libsoup} and can be configured to check
+available. It's based on \texttt{libsoup} and can be configured to check
 during startup or on manual request.
 
 \subsubsection{WebHelper}
 
 \textbf{WebHelper} is a plugin that provides some web
 development facilities, such as a web page preview and some
-debugging tools (web inspector). The plugin is implements
+debugging tools (web inspector). The plugin implements
 the following features:
 
 \begin{itemize}
@@ -153,23 +152,23 @@ Scintilla editing component.
 \subsubsection{Support for COBOL}
 
 At end of January a patch has been committed to Geany trunk which is
-enabling COBOL-support inside Geany. Now its also possible to use
+enabling COBOL-support inside Geany. Now it's also possible to use
 features like syntax highlighting for this language.
 
 
 \section{Plugins}
 
-It was a quiet active time right after the 0.20 release on plugin
+It was a quite active time right after the 0.20 release on the plugin
 development side.
 
 \subsection{New plugins to Geany-Plugins-project}
 \subsubsection{Tableconvert}
 
 After a little chaos with naming, the new plugin \textbf{Tableconvert}
-has been added to the development version of the Geany-Plugins. Its
-offering a way to convert tab separated lists (e.g. imported
+has been added to the development version of the Geany-Plugins. It
+offers a way to convert tab separated lists (e.g. imported
 from Microsoft Excel or Libreoffice Calc) into a table. Currently the
-plugin is supporting HTML and \LaTeX{} tables.
+plugin supports HTML and \LaTeX{} tables.
 
 \subsubsection{Debugger}
 
@@ -186,25 +185,25 @@ encrypting as well as decryption of text files opened in Geany.
 
 \subsection{New Mailing List -- geany-newsletter-commits}
 
-With setting up the \texttt{geany-newsletter} project it have been
-also a new commit mailing list be configured. Goal of this list is
-to notify all interested people whenever a new commit has take place
+With setting up the \texttt{geany-newsletter} project, a
+a new commit mailing has also been created. The goal of this list is
+to notify all interested people whenever a new commit has taken place
 inside the geany-newsletter git repository. As always you can find
 the list via \url{http://www.geany.org/Support/MailingList}
 
 \subsection{New team member -- Colomban Wendling}
 
-Since March with Colomban a new member has joind the Geany core
-team. He did a very well work  lot of patches during the last years.
-He did a great job during the last month on e.g. building up a
+In March 2011, Colomban Wendling joined the Geany core
+team. Over the last few years he has submitted a lot of patches.
+He did a great job during the last month - e.g. building up a
 tagmanager-in-memory patchset as well as providing a big number of
-patches and support on both mailing list as well as IRC. Welcome
+patches and providing support on both the mailing list as well as IRC. Welcome
 Colomban!
 
 
 \section{Contact}
 
-If you like to contribute to the newsletter, sending your wishes or
-just complain about content please contact frank at geany.org via email.
+If you like to contribute to the newsletter, make a request or
+complaint about content please contact frank at geany.org via email.
 
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