Mixxx

Typos, bad English usage in manual (with fix)

Bug #1179118 reported by Steven Boswell on 2013-05-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Mixxx	Fix Released	Low	Steven Boswell	Mixxx 1.11.1

Bug Description

I finally had a chance to read the 1.11 manual, and found several minor things to fix, mostly in the way of punctuation and the use of the English language.

Enclosed is a patch, made against the 1.11 release branch.

Related branches

lp:~mixxxdevelopers/mixxx/manual-1.11.x

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Steven Boswell (ulatekh) wrote on 2013-05-12:

mixxx-manual-111.patch Edit (24.3 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in mixxx:
assignee:	nobody → Steven Boswell (ulatekh)

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Steven Boswell (ulatekh) wrote on 2013-05-12:

Oh...duh...the patch got applied earlier.
The patcher didn't tell me he did that.

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Steven Boswell (ulatekh) wrote on 2013-05-12:

mixxx-manual-111.patch Edit (10.4 KiB, text/plain)

OK, that's odd...only some of them were applied. The enclosed patch contains the rest of my changes.
e.g. "trough" is still not a substitute for "through", and commas aren't the same as semicolons.

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jus (jus) wrote on 2013-05-12:

Thanks for proofreading Steven.

In your patch:
- Alternatively use the right-click context menu in the library`s :ref:`track list<library-root>`
+ Alternately, use the right-click context menu in the library`s :ref:`track list<library-root>`

Q: We use "alternatively" in other parts of the manual. As a native English speaker, what is the correct use here ?

Changed in mixxx:
milestone:	none → 1.11.1
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Owen Williams (ywwg) wrote on 2013-05-12:

"Alternatively" is correct.

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Max Linke (max-linke) wrote on 2013-05-12: Re: [Bug 1179118] Re: Typos, bad English usage in manual (with fix)

That becomes clear when you look at the german translation

alternatively - ersatzweise/alternativ
alternately - abwechselnd

I would stay with alternatively here as well

On Sun, 12 May 2013 12:09:32 -0000
jus <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for proofreading Steven.
>
> In your patch:
> - Alternatively use the right-click context menu in the
> library`s :ref:`track list<library-root>`
> + Alternately, use the right-click context menu in the
> library`s :ref:`track list<library-root>`
>
> Q: We use "alternatively" in other parts of the manual. As a native
> English speaker, what is the correct use here ?
>
> ** Changed in: mixxx
> Milestone: None => 1.11.1
>
> ** Changed in: mixxx
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: mixxx
> Status: New => Fix Committed
>

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Steven Boswell (ulatekh) wrote on 2013-05-12:

OK, based on reading some references around the Net, "alternatively" is still considered English, but it seems to be deprecated.
You can keep "alternatively" if you want.

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rob (another-rob) wrote on 2013-05-12:

"Alternatively" is perfectly good and current English, and is appropriate in this instance. "Alternately" would work in this instance as well.

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jus (jus) wrote on 2013-05-13:

Thanks for the input guys. Rolled back to "alternatively".

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Steven Boswell (ulatekh) wrote on 2013-05-13:

#10

mixxx-manual-111.patch Edit (979 bytes, text/plain)

Looks like one fix got missed...I changed the term "drag-and-dropping" to "dragging-and-dropping". That term only appeared once in the manual; otherwise, it uses the 2nd term consistently.

RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan) on 2015-12-31