Changeset 69993f4 for chapter06/flex.xml

Timestamp:

08/29/2004 06:36:34 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

6.0

Children:

8b320e7

Parents:

ec0a37e6

Message:

Second round of edits for final release

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/testing/BOOK@4066 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/flex.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

chapter06/flex.xml

@@ -23 +23 @@
 <segtitle>Flex installation depends on</segtitle>
 <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils,
-GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
+GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
 </segmentedlist>
 </sect2>
@@ -35 +35 @@
 
 <para>The GNU autotools detects that the Flex source code has been
-modified by the previous patch, and tries to update the manual page
+modified by the previous patch and tries to update the manual page
 accordingly. This does not work correctly on many systems, and the
 default page is fine, so make sure it does not get regenerated:</para>
@@ -41 +41 @@
 <screen><userinput>touch doc/flex.1</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>Now prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
+<para>Prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
@@ -86 +86 @@
 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
 <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>flex, flex++ (link to flex) and lex</seg>
+<seglistitem><seg>flex, flex++ (link to flex), and lex</seg>
 <seg>libfl.a</seg></seglistitem>
 </segmentedlist>
@@ -101 +101 @@
 patterns from a set of established rules.
 <application>Flex</application> allows for the versatility to specify
-the rules for a pattern-finding, eradicating the need to develop a
+the rules for pattern-finding, eradicating the need to develop a
 specialized program.</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-flex flex"><primary sortas="b-flex">flex</primary></indexterm>
@@ -112 +112 @@
 <para>invokes a version of <command>flex</command> that is used exclusively for C++ scanners.</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-flex flex-"><primary sortas="b-flex++">flex++</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="lex">
+<term><command>lex</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>script that runs <command>flex</command> in lex emulation
+mode.</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-flex lex"><primary sortas="b-lex">lex</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>