[PATCH] overview-manual: chs 1-3, various minor tweaks/cleanups


Robert P. J. Day
 

Minor fixes:

- punctuation
- capitalization
- markup
- wording

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...>

---

diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-development-environment.xml b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-development-environment.xml
index 2f1bd1610..dd12814fc 100644
--- a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-development-environment.xml
+++ b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-development-environment.xml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
<title>The Development Host</title>

<para>
- A development host or
+ A <firstterm>development host</firstterm> or
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#hardware-build-system-term'>build host</ulink>
is key to using the Yocto Project.
Because the goal of the Yocto Project is to develop images or
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@
In summary, a single point of entry
exists for changes into a "master" or development branch of the
Git repository, which is controlled by the project’s maintainer.
- And, a set of developers exist who independently develop, test, and
+ In addition, a set of developers exist who independently develop, test, and
submit changes to "contrib" areas for the maintainer to examine.
The maintainer then chooses which changes are going to become a
permanent part of the project.
diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-yp-intro.xml b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-yp-intro.xml
index dbf62cc16..87b7e40b3 100644
--- a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-yp-intro.xml
+++ b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-yp-intro.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
Additionally, if you have used the Yocto Project to
create an image or application and you find yourself
not able to support it, commercial Linux vendors such
- as Wind River, Mentor Graphics, Timesys, and ENEA could
+ as Wind River, Mentor Graphics, Timesys, and Enea could
take it and provide ongoing support.
These vendors have offerings that are built using
the Yocto Project.
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
not part of a standard toolchain, you can easily
customize that toolchain through specification of
platform-specific tuning parameters.
- And, should you need to use a third-party toolchain,
+ In addition, should you need to use a third-party toolchain,
mechanisms built into the Yocto Project allow for that.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
<emphasis>Initial Build Times Can be Significant:</emphasis>
Long initial build times are unfortunately unavoidable
due to the large number of packages initially built
- from scratch for a fully functioning Linux system.
+ from scratch for a fully-functioning Linux system.
Once that initial build is completed, however, the
shared-state (sstate) cache mechanism Yocto Project
uses keeps the system from rebuilding packages that
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
To illustrate how layers are used to keep things modular, consider
machine customizations.
These types of customizations typically reside in a special layer,
- rather than a general layer, called a BSP Layer.
+ rather than a general layer, called a <firstterm>BSP layer</firstterm>.
Furthermore, the machine customizations should be isolated from
recipes and Metadata that support a new GUI environment,
for example.
@@ -852,9 +852,9 @@
</para>

<para>
- This section provides an introduction to the choices or
+ This section provides an introduction to the choices of
development methods you have when setting up your Build Host.
- Depending on the your particular workflow preference and the
+ Depending on your particular workflow preference and the
type of operating system your Build Host runs, several choices
exist that allow you to use the Yocto Project.
<note>
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@
</para>

<para>
- Poky has a regular, well established, six-month release cycle
+ Poky has a regular, well-established, six-month release cycle
under its own version.
Major releases occur at the same time major releases (point
releases) occur for the Yocto Project, which are typically in the
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@
select (DEB, RPM, or IPK) is used to roll up the software.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- Different QA and sanity checks run throughout entire
+ Different QA and sanity checks run throughout the entire
build process.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@
user-defined variables, and hardware configuration
information.
These files tell the
- <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#build-system-term'>Open-Embedded build system</ulink>
+ <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#build-system-term'>OpenEmbedded build system</ulink>
what to build and what to put into the image to support a
particular platform.
</para></listitem>
@@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@
<para>For more detailed information on layers, see the
"<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#understanding-and-creating-layers'>Understanding and Creating Layers</ulink>"
section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
- For a discussion specifically on BSP Layers, see the
+ For a discussion specifically on BSP layers, see the
"<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BSP_URL;#bsp-layers'>BSP Layers</ulink>"
section in the Yocto Project Board Support Packages (BSP)
Developer's Guide.
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@
developed by the OpenEmbedded community that has been
pared down into a smaller, core set of continuously
validated recipes.
- The result is a tightly controlled and quality-assured
+ The result is a tightly-controlled and quality-assured
core set of recipes.</para>

<para>You can see the Metadata in the
@@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@
patches to apply.
Recipes describe dependencies for libraries or for other
recipes as well as configuration and compilation options.
- Related recipes are consolidated into a layer.
+ Related recipes are typically consolidated into a layer.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

--

========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca

Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday
========================================================================

Join {yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org to automatically receive all group messages.