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involved in proofreading
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Currently we are in the process of proofreading
A complete tarball of the Texinfo sources is available as the file gcc.tar.bz2 in the directory http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~sfllaw/using-gcc/
Please randomly select two of the 20 sections and proofread them. If you have time to do more, that's fantastic!
Once you are finished editing a portion, please send patches to the mailing list (bug-gnupress at gnu dot org), citing the section you edited and any corrections that need to be made. If you know Texinfo, please send patches in Texinfo format. If you don't know Texinfo, you can use standard errata notation such as:
p. 15, line 10: "...something up with which we will not put."
should read: "...something we will not put up with."
Please make changes directly in Texinfo code and mail it to the discussion list (bug-gnupress at gnu dot org).
Simon Law wrote: A tarball of the sources I used to generate the PDFs is available at http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~sfllaw/using-gcc/gcc.tar.bz2
You will need to have checked out the GNU Press CVS repository. I have checked mine into the ~/gnupress directory. In order to build a DVI of the manual: bash-2.05b$ texi2dvi -I ~/gnupress/texpress -I . -I include gcc.texi
To view the DVI: bash-2.05b$ xdvi -paper 7x9.25in gcc.dvi
To build the PDF from that, use: bash-2.05b$ dvipdf gcc.dvi
Check for "overfull H Boxes" which are marked by a black solid rectangle at the end of a line.
Check for "underfull H Boxes" which are marked by strange sentence breaks before the end of the line has been reached.
For those who know Texinfo, please submit ways to shrink the vertical length of space that text uses when laid out. This has mostly been finished for this manual already, but any additional suggestions are welcome.
The program GCC has it's own protocol manual. Please check for technical terminology standards specific to this manual.
Click Here for the section of the Free Software Foundation's general coding standards relating specifically to documentation.
Our preferred standard for documentation formatting is the simple but powerful language Texinfo. It is a front-end for Donald Knuth's TeX, like it's younger and more famous sibling, LaTeX. Click Here to see the on-line manual for Texinfo.
Richard M. Stallman’s Information for Maintainers Manual is not completely germane to this level of development, but technical editors might like to take a look at it.
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Updated: $Date: 2006/05/01 10:08:22 $ $Author: ramprasadb $