Typos, bad English usage in manual (with fix)

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Reported by: ulatekh
Date: 2013-05-12T02:44:12Z
Status: Fix Released
Importance: Low
Launchpad Issue: lp1179118
Attachments: mixxx-manual-111.patch, mixxx-manual-111.patch, mixxx-manual-111.patch

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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.

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Commented by: ulatekh
Date: 2013-05-12T02:44:12Z
Attachments: mixxx-manual-111.patch

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Commented by: ulatekh
Date: 2013-05-12T02:49:05Z

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

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Commented by: ulatekh
Date: 2013-05-12T03:05:49Z
Attachments: mixxx-manual-111.patch

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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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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2013-05-12T12:09:32Z

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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 ?

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Commented by: ywwg
Date: 2013-05-12T12:46:58Z

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"Alternatively" is correct.

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Commented by: kain88-de
Date: 2013-05-12T13:05:21Z

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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
  librarys :ref:track list`

• Alternately, use the right-click context menu in the
  librarys :ref:track list`

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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Commented by: ulatekh
Date: 2013-05-12T14:37:52Z

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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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Commented by: borfo
Date: 2013-05-12T15:49:45Z

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"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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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2013-05-13T03:26:44Z

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

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Commented by: ulatekh
Date: 2013-05-13T15:38:19Z
Attachments: mixxx-manual-111.patch

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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.

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Issue closed with status Fix Released.