Changeset 872d8ea8 for book/whoread.xml

Timestamp:

10/05/2022 02:52:20 PM (19 months ago)

Author:

David Bryant <davidbryant@…>

Branches:

11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

e7f969d

Parents:

661e7eb

Message:

Cleaned up the verbiage: removed superfluous words here and there.
Note, in particular, that a "base LFS system", according to Mr. Webster,
is an inferior system, or a worthless system. "Basic" is the right
adjective in this context.

File:

• book/whoread.xml (modified) (1 diff)

book/whoread.xml

@@ -18 +18 @@
     This book is mainly aimed at those who have built a system based
     on the LFS book. It will also be useful for those who are using other
-    distributions, but for one reason or another want to manually build
-    software and are in need of some assistance. Note that the material
-    contained in this book, in particular the dependency listings, is based
-    upon the assumption that you are using a base LFS system with every
+    distributions, and for one reason or another want to manually build
+    software and need some assistance. Note that the material
+    in this book, in particular the dependency listings, 
+    assumes that you are using a basic LFS system with every
     package listed in the LFS book already installed and configured. BLFS can
     be used to create a range of diverse systems and so the target audience is
-    probably nearly as wide as that of the LFS book.  If you found LFS useful,
+    probably as wide as that of the LFS book.  If you found LFS useful,
     you should also like this!
   </para>
 
   <para>
-    Since Release 7.4, the BLFS book version matches the LFS book version.
+    Since Release 7.4, the BLFS book version has matched the LFS book version.
     This book may be incompatible with a previous or later release of the LFS
     book.