Re: Corrections to manuals

[I sent this to pgsql-docs, which bounced it as being over 40k. I'll leave
you to publicise it as you wish.]

The "patches" list is the only one without that restriction...

I attach a patch containing corrections to the Tutorial and User's Guide for
spelling, grammar, euphony and (occasionally) content. I've got as far as
ALTER TABLE in chapter 14 of the User's Guide. I'll get on to the others
sometime.

Great! These all look good. Please do *not* make more updates to any
sgml/ref/*.sgml files until I've worked through them to do a final
merge of the old man pages. Since I'm reading them all to do the
merge, I'm making some fixes as I go, and these are likely to conflict
with work you would do. I'm hoping to be finished in a few days, but
for a few pages it goes slowly.

Please note that <quote>...</quote> produces only surrounding spaces in the
Postscript versions as printed by a HP Laserjet 6MP and by ghostscript.
I have not attempted to change these.

That's not a good feature...

Tom, is it possible to make the printed text fully justified? It would
look a lot better, I think.

It might be possible in the future. At the moment, I can't do much in
the way of formatting style adjustments because of small glitches in
the way Applix reads the RTF file I generate from the sgml. But I hope
to talk to Applix about that soon.

Thanks again for the great patches!

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California