Say "colon" before (:) (that is, a colon inside parentheses)

If we'd like to avoid spelling out "colon", we should quote the colon rather than putting it inside parentheses.

chapters/functions.tex

@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ \section{Function as a Specialized Class}\label{function-as-a-specialized-class}
   \end{nonnormative}
   A function \emph{cannot contain} calls to the Modelica \emph{built-in operators} \lstinline!der!, \lstinline!initial!, \lstinline!terminal!, \lstinline!sample!, \lstinline!pre!, \lstinline!edge!, \lstinline!change!, \lstinline!reinit!, \lstinline!delay!, \lstinline!cardinality!, \lstinline!inStream!, \lstinline!actualStream!, to the operators of the built-in package \lstinline!Connections!, to the operators defined in \cref{synchronous-language-elements} and \cref{state-machines}, and is not allowed to contain when-statements.
 \item
-  The dimension \emph{sizes} not declared with (\lstinline!:!) of each array result or array local variable (i.e., a non-input components) of a function must be either given by the input formal parameters, or given by constant or parameter expressions, or by expressions containing combinations of those (\cref{initialization-and-binding-equations-of-components-in-functions}).
+  The dimension \emph{sizes} not declared with colon (\lstinline!:!) of each array result or array local variable (i.e., a non-input component) of a function must be either given by the input formal parameters, or given by constant or parameter expressions, or by expressions containing combinations of those (\cref{initialization-and-binding-equations-of-components-in-functions}).
 \item
   For initialization of local variables of a function see \cref{initialization-and-binding-equations-of-components-in-functions}).
 \item
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ \section{Function as a Specialized Class}\label{function-as-a-specialized-class}
 \item
   A function may have a \lstinline!return! statement in its algorithm section body.
 \item
-  A function allows dimension sizes declared with (\lstinline!:!) to be resized for non-input array variables, see \cref{flexible-array-sizes-and-resizing-of-arrays-in-functions}.
+  A function allows dimension sizes declared with colon (\lstinline!:!) to be resized for non-input array variables, see \cref{flexible-array-sizes-and-resizing-of-arrays-in-functions}.
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   A function may be defined in a short function definition to be a
   function partial derivative.