Various grammar improvements (#7769)

In builtin//pkgmgr.lua, README.md and settingtypes.txt.
Based on 2 pull requests by comradekingu.

Author: paramat

README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Minetest
 
 An InfiniMiner/Minecraft inspired game.
 
-Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com>
+Copyright (C) 2010-2018 Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com>
 and contributors (see source file comments and the version control log)
 
 In case you downloaded the source code:
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Further documentation
 - Wiki: http://wiki.minetest.net/
 - Developer wiki: http://dev.minetest.net/
 - Forum: http://forum.minetest.net/
-- Github: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/
+- GitHub: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/
 - [doc/](doc/) directory of source distribution
 
 Default controls
@@ -55,15 +55,14 @@ Some can be changed in the key config dialog in the settings tab.
 | J                             | Enable/disable fast mode (needs fast privilege)                |
 | H                             | Enable/disable noclip mode (needs noclip privilege)            |
 | E                             | Move fast in fast mode                                         |
-| F1                            |  Hide/show HUD                                                 |
-| F2                            |  Hide/show chat                                                |
-| F3                            |  Disable/enable fog                                            |
-| F4                            |  Disable/enable camera update (Mapblocks are not updated anymore when disabled, disabled in release builds)  |
-| F5                            |  Cycle through debug info screens                              |
-| F6                            |  Cycle through profiler info screens                           |
-| F7                            |  Cycle through camera modes                                    |
-| F8                            |  Toggle cinematic mode                                         |
-| F9                            |  Cycle through minimap modes                                   |
+| F1                            | Hide/show HUD                                                  |
+| F2                            | Hide/show chat                                                 |
+| F3                            | Disable/enable fog                                             |
+| F4                            | Disable/enable camera update (Mapblocks are not updated anymore when disabled, disabled in release builds)  |
+| F5                            | Cycle through debug information screens                        |
+| F6                            | Cycle through profiler info screens                            |
+| F7                            | Cycle through camera modes                                     |
+| F9                            | Cycle through minimap modes                                    |
 | Shift + F9                    | Change minimap orientation                                     |
 | F10                           | Show/hide console                                              |
 | F12                           | Take screenshot                                                |
@@ -133,32 +132,32 @@ For Fedora users:
 
 #### Download
 
-You can install git for easily keeping your copy up to date.
-If you don’t want git, read below on how to get the source without git.  
-This is an example for installing git on Debian/Ubuntu:
+You can install Git for easily keeping your copy up to date.
+If you don’t want Git, read below on how to get the source without Git.  
+This is an example for installing Git on Debian/Ubuntu:
 
     sudo apt install git
 
 For Fedora users:
 
     sudo dnf install git
 
-Download source (this is the URL to the latest of source repository, which might not work at all times) using git:
+Download source (this is the URL to the latest of source repository, which might not work at all times) using Git:
 
     git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/minetest.git
     cd minetest
 
-Download minetest_game (otherwise only the "Minimal development test" game is available) using git:
+Download minetest_game (otherwise only the "Minimal development test" game is available) using Git:
 
     git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game.git games/minetest_game
 
-Download source, without using git:
+Download source, without using Git:
 
     wget https://github.com/minetest/minetest/archive/master.tar.gz
     tar xf master.tar.gz
     cd minetest-master
 
-Download minetest_game, without using git:
+Download minetest_game, without using Git:
 
     cd games/
     wget https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/archive/master.tar.gz
@@ -197,7 +196,7 @@ General options and their default values:
         Release                - Release build
         Debug                  - Debug build
         SemiDebug              - Partially optimized debug build
-        RelWithDebInfo         - Release build with Debug information
+        RelWithDebInfo         - Release build with debug information
         MinSizeRel             - Release build with -Os passed to compiler to make executable as small as possible
     ENABLE_CURL=ON             - Build with cURL; Enables use of online mod repo, public serverlist and remote media fetching via http
     ENABLE_CURSES=ON           - Build with (n)curses; Enables a server side terminal (command line option: --terminal)
@@ -208,7 +207,7 @@ General options and their default values:
     ENABLE_POSTGRESQL=ON       - Build with libpq; Enables use of PostgreSQL map backend (PostgreSQL 9.5 or greater recommended)
     ENABLE_REDIS=ON            - Build with libhiredis; Enables use of Redis map backend
     ENABLE_SPATIAL=ON          - Build with LibSpatial; Speeds up AreaStores
-    ENABLE_SOUND=ON            - Build with OpenAL, libogg & libvorbis; in-game Sounds
+    ENABLE_SOUND=ON            - Build with OpenAL, libogg & libvorbis; in-game sounds
     ENABLE_LUAJIT=ON           - Build with LuaJIT (much faster than non-JIT Lua)
     ENABLE_SYSTEM_GMP=ON       - Use GMP from system (much faster than bundled mini-gmp)
     ENABLE_SYSTEM_JSONCPP=OFF  - Use JsonCPP from system
@@ -226,15 +225,15 @@ Library specific options:
     CURL_LIBRARY                    - Only if building with cURL; path to libcurl.a/libcurl.so/libcurl.lib
     EGL_INCLUDE_DIR                 - Only if building with GLES; directory that contains egl.h
     EGL_LIBRARY                     - Only if building with GLES; path to libEGL.a/libEGL.so
-    FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2  - Only if building with Freetype2; directory that contains an freetype directory with files such as ftimage.h in it
-    FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build   - Only if building with Freetype2; directory that contains ft2build.h
-    FREETYPE_LIBRARY                - Only if building with Freetype2; path to libfreetype.a/libfreetype.so/freetype.lib
-    FREETYPE_DLL                    - Only if building with Freetype2 on Windows; path to libfreetype.dll
-    GETTEXT_DLL                     - Only when building with Gettext on Windows; path to libintl3.dll
-    GETTEXT_ICONV_DLL               - Only when building with Gettext on Windows; path to libiconv2.dll
-    GETTEXT_INCLUDE_DIR             - Only when building with Gettext; directory that contains iconv.h
-    GETTEXT_LIBRARY                 - Only when building with Gettext on Windows; path to libintl.dll.a
-    GETTEXT_MSGFMT                  - Only when building with Gettext; path to msgfmt/msgfmt.exe
+    FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_freetype2  - Only if building with FreeType 2; directory that contains an freetype directory with files such as ftimage.h in it
+    FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_ft2build   - Only if building with FreeType 2; directory that contains ft2build.h
+    FREETYPE_LIBRARY                - Only if building with FreeType 2; path to libfreetype.a/libfreetype.so/freetype.lib
+    FREETYPE_DLL                    - Only if building with FreeType 2 on Windows; path to libfreetype.dll
+    GETTEXT_DLL                     - Only when building with gettext on Windows; path to libintl3.dll
+    GETTEXT_ICONV_DLL               - Only when building with gettext on Windows; path to libiconv2.dll
+    GETTEXT_INCLUDE_DIR             - Only when building with gettext; directory that contains iconv.h
+    GETTEXT_LIBRARY                 - Only when building with gettext on Windows; path to libintl.dll.a
+    GETTEXT_MSGFMT                  - Only when building with gettext; path to msgfmt/msgfmt.exe
     IRRLICHT_DLL                    - Only on Windows; path to Irrlicht.dll
     IRRLICHT_INCLUDE_DIR            - Directory that contains IrrCompileConfig.h
     IRRLICHT_LIBRARY                - Path to libIrrlicht.a/libIrrlicht.so/libIrrlicht.dll.a/Irrlicht.lib
@@ -302,10 +301,10 @@ Library specific options:
 	* Download all the other stuff to DIR and extract them into there.
 	  ("extract here", not "extract to packagename/")
 	    * NOTE: zlib125dll.zip needs to be extracted into zlib125dll
-	    * NOTE: You need to extract sqlite3.h & sqlite3ext.h from sqlite3 source
-	      and sqlite3.dll & sqlite3.def from sqlite3 precompiled binaries
-	      into "sqlite3" directory, and generate sqlite3.lib using command
-	      "LIB /DEF:sqlite3.def /OUT:sqlite3.lib"
+	    * NOTE: You need to extract sqlite3.h & sqlite3ext.h from the SQLite 3
+	      source and sqlite3.dll & sqlite3.def from the SQLite 3 precompiled
+	      binaries into "sqlite3" directory, and generate sqlite3.lib using
+	      command "LIB /DEF:sqlite3.def /OUT:sqlite3.lib"
 	* All those packages contain a nice base directory in them, which
 	  should end up being the direct subdirectories of DIR.
 	* You will end up with a directory structure like this (+=dir, -=file):
@@ -439,5 +438,5 @@ patch is set to 0.
 minor/trivial features considered necessary.
 
 Since 5.0.0-dev and 0.4.17-dev, the dev notation refers to the next release, 
-ie: 5.0.0-dev is the development version leading to 5.0.0. 
+i.e.: 5.0.0-dev is the development version leading to 5.0.0. 
 Prior to that we used `previous_version-dev`.

builtin/mainmenu/pkgmgr.lua

@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ function pkgmgr.install_dir(type, path, basename, targetpath)
 				targetpath = core.get_modpath() .. DIR_DELIM .. clean_path
 			else
 				return nil,
-					fgettext("Install Mod: unable to find suitable foldername for modpack $1",
+					fgettext("Install Mod: Unable to find suitable folder name for modpack $1",
 					modfilename)
 			end
 		end
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ function pkgmgr.install_dir(type, path, basename, targetpath)
 			if targetfolder ~= nil and pkgmgr.isValidModname(targetfolder) then
 				targetpath = core.get_modpath() .. DIR_DELIM .. targetfolder
 			else
-				return nil, fgettext("Install Mod: unable to find real modname for: $1", modfilename)
+				return nil, fgettext("Install Mod: Unable to find real mod name for: $1", modfilename)
 			end
 		end
 
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ function pkgmgr.install(type, modfilename, basename, dest)
 	if path == nil then
 		return nil,
 			fgettext("Install: file: \"$1\"", archive_info.name) .. "\n" ..
-			fgettext("Install: unsupported filetype \"$1\" or broken archive",
+			fgettext("Install: Unsupported file type \"$1\" or broken archive",
 				archive_info.type)
 	end
 

builtin/settingtypes.txt

@@ -349,15 +349,15 @@ keymap_slot23 (Hotbar slot 23 key) key
 #    See http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/namespaceirr.html#a54da2a0e231901735e3da1b0edf72eb3
 keymap_toggle_hud (HUD toggle key) key KEY_F1
 
-#    Key for toggling the display of the chat.
+#    Key for toggling the display of chat.
 #    See http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/namespaceirr.html#a54da2a0e231901735e3da1b0edf72eb3
 keymap_toggle_chat (Chat toggle key) key KEY_F2
 
 #    Key for toggling the display of the large chat console.
 #    See http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/namespaceirr.html#a54da2a0e231901735e3da1b0edf72eb3
 keymap_console (Large chat console key) key KEY_F10
 
-#    Key for toggling the display of the fog.
+#    Key for toggling the display of fog.
 #    See http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/namespaceirr.html#a54da2a0e231901735e3da1b0edf72eb3
 keymap_toggle_force_fog_off (Fog toggle key) key KEY_F3
 
@@ -440,15 +440,15 @@ trilinear_filter (Trilinear filtering) bool false
 
 #    Filtered textures can blend RGB values with fully-transparent neighbors,
 #    which PNG optimizers usually discard, sometimes resulting in a dark or
-#    light edge to transparent textures.  Apply this filter to clean that up
+#    light edge to transparent textures. Apply this filter to clean that up
 #    at texture load time.
 texture_clean_transparent (Clean transparent textures) bool false
 
 #    When using bilinear/trilinear/anisotropic filters, low-resolution textures
 #    can be blurred, so automatically upscale them with nearest-neighbor
-#    interpolation to preserve crisp pixels.  This sets the minimum texture size
+#    interpolation to preserve crisp pixels. This sets the minimum texture size
 #    for the upscaled textures; higher values look sharper, but require more
-#    memory.  Powers of 2 are recommended.  Setting this higher than 1 may not
+#    memory.  Powers of 2 are recommended. Setting this higher than 1 may not
 #    have a visible effect unless bilinear/trilinear/anisotropic filtering is
 #    enabled.
 #    This is also used as the base node texture size for world-aligned
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ fullscreen (Full screen) bool false
 fullscreen_bpp (Full screen BPP) int 24
 
 #    Vertical screen synchronization.
-vsync (V-Sync) bool false
+vsync (VSync) bool false
 
 #    Field of view in degrees.
 fov (Field of view) int 72 45 160
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ texture_path (Texture path) path
 
 #    The rendering back-end for Irrlicht.
 #    A restart is required after changing this.
-#    Note: on Android, stick with OGLES1 if unsure! App may fail to start otherwise.
+#    Note: On Android, stick with OGLES1 if unsure! App may fail to start otherwise.
 #    On other platforms, OpenGL is recommended, and it’s the only driver with
 #    shader support currently.
 video_driver (Video driver) enum opengl null,software,burningsvideo,direct3d8,direct3d9,opengl,ogles1,ogles2
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ world_aligned_mode (World-aligned textures mode) enum enable disable,enable,forc
 #    a specially-designed texture pack; with this option, the client tries
 #    to determine the scale automatically basing on the texture size.
 #    See also texture_min_size.
-#    Warning: this option is EXPERIMENTAL!
+#    Warning: This option is EXPERIMENTAL!
 autoscale_mode (Autoscaling mode) enum disable disable,enable,force
 
 #    Show entity selection boxes
@@ -773,8 +773,8 @@ tooltip_show_delay (Tooltip delay) int 400
 #    Append item name to tooltip.
 tooltip_append_itemname (Append item name) bool false
 
-#    Whether freetype fonts are used, requires freetype support to be compiled in.
-freetype (Freetype fonts) bool true
+#    Whether FreeType fonts are used, requires FreeType support to be compiled in.
+freetype (FreeType fonts) bool true
 
 #    Path to TrueTypeFont or bitmap.
 font_path (Font path) filepath fonts/liberationsans.ttf
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ server_description (Server description) string mine here
 server_address (Server address) string game.minetest.net
 
 #    Homepage of server, to be displayed in the serverlist.
-server_url (Server URL) string http://minetest.net
+server_url (Server URL) string https://minetest.net
 
 #    Automaticaly report to the serverlist.
 server_announce (Announce server) bool false
@@ -1088,17 +1088,17 @@ server_unload_unused_data_timeout (Unload unused server data) int 29
 #    Maximum number of statically stored objects in a block.
 max_objects_per_block (Maximum objects per block) int 64
 
-#    See http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous
+#    See https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous
 sqlite_synchronous (Synchronous SQLite) enum 2 0,1,2
 
 #    Length of a server tick and the interval at which objects are generally updated over network.
 dedicated_server_step (Dedicated server step) float 0.09
 
-#    Time in between active block management cycles
-active_block_mgmt_interval (Active Block Management interval) float 2.0
+#    Length of time between active block management cycles
+active_block_mgmt_interval (Active block management interval) float 2.0
 
-#    Length of time between ABM execution cycles
-abm_interval (Active Block Modifier interval) float 1.0
+#    Length of time between Active Block Modifier (ABM) execution cycles
+abm_interval (ABM interval) float 1.0
 
 #    Length of time between NodeTimer execution cycles
 nodetimer_interval (NodeTimer interval) float 0.2
@@ -1704,7 +1704,7 @@ mgfractal_iterations (Iterations) int 11
 mgfractal_scale (Scale) v3f (4096.0, 1024.0, 4096.0)
 
 #    (X,Y,Z) offset of fractal from world centre in units of 'scale'.
-#    Can be used to move a desired point to (0, 0): to create a
+#    Can be used to move a desired point to (0, 0) to create a
 #    suitable spawn point, or to allow 'zooming in' on a desired
 #    point by increasing 'scale'.
 #    The default is tuned for a suitable spawn point for mandelbrot
@@ -1841,12 +1841,12 @@ mgvalleys_np_inter_valley_slope (Valley slope) noise_params_2d 0.5, 0.5, (128, 1
 #    Size of chunks to be generated at once by mapgen, stated in mapblocks (16 nodes).
 #    Increasing this by 1 almost doubles the 3D noise calculation load.
 #    High values can cause noise calculation to overload.
-#    Values smaller than 5 cause a terrain bug in mgv6.
+#    Values smaller than 5 cause a terrain bug in Mapgen V6.
 #    Since there is a fixed number of large caves and dungeons per
 #    mapchunk, values other than 5 alter the density of these.
 chunksize (Chunk size) int 5
 
-#    Dump the mapgen debug infos.
+#    Dump the mapgen debug information.
 enable_mapgen_debug_info (Mapgen debug) bool false
 
 #    Maximum number of blocks that can be queued for loading.