Fix a few typos

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ contributors.
 ## Making Changes ##
 
 * Create a topic branch for your fork to which you commit your work
-    * Please avoid commiting changes to your master branch as it risks mixing
+    * Please avoid committing changes to your master branch as it risks mixing
         code for unrelated fixes which makes merging the changes back to the
         main brat repository more difficult
 * Make commits for small logical units of code and resources

README.md

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ brat does this by:
     "Put all your eggs in one basket, and then guard that basket!")
 * Present text as it would appear to a reader and maintain annotations close
     to the text
-* Zero set-up for annotators, leave configurations and server/data maintainence
+* Zero set-up for annotators, leave configurations and server/data maintenance
     to other staff
 
 ## License ##

server/lib/altnamedtuple.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def namedtuple(typename, field_names, verbose=False, rename=False):
     >>> x, y = p                        # unpack like a regular tuple
     >>> x, y
     (11, 22)
-    >>> p.x + p.y                       # fields also accessable by name
+    >>> p.x + p.y                       # fields also accessible by name
     33
     >>> d = p._asdict()                 # convert to a dictionary
     >>> d['x']
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def __getnewargs__(self):
     result = namespace[typename]
 
     # For pickling to work, the __module__ variable needs to be set to the frame
-    # where the named tuple is created.  Bypass this step in enviroments where
+    # where the named tuple is created.  Bypass this step in environments where
     # sys._getframe is not defined (Jython for example) or sys._getframe is not
     # defined for arguments greater than 0 (IronPython).
     try:

server/src/annotation.py

@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ def get_new_id(self, prefix, suffix=None):
         #XXX: Stupid and linear
         if suffix is None:
             suffix = ''
-        #XXX: Arbitary constant!
+        #XXX: Arbitrary constant!
         for suggestion in (prefix + unicode(i) + suffix for i in xrange(1, 2**15)):
             # This is getting more complicated by the minute, two checks since
             # the developers no longer know when it is an id or string.
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ def _parse_equiv_annotation(self, dummy, data, data_tail, input_file_path):
         equivs = type_tail.split(None)
         return EquivAnnotation(type, equivs, data_tail, source_id=input_file_path)
 
-    # Parse an old modifier annotation for back-wards compability
+    # Parse an old modifier annotation for backwards compatibility
     def _parse_modifier_annotation(self, id, data, data_tail, input_file_path):
         type, target = data.split()
         return AttributeAnnotation(target, id, type, data_tail, True, source_id=input_file_path)

server/src/backup.py

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def backup(min_interval=MIN_INTERVAL, backup_dir=BACKUP_DIR, data_dir=DATA_DIR):
     if backup_dir is None:
         return
 
-    #XXX: The timeout is arbitary but dependant on the back-up, should we start
+    #XXX: The timeout is arbitrary but dependent on the back-up, should we start
     #       with a sane default and then refer to how long the last back-up
     #       took?  
     backup_lock = join_path(DATA_DIR, '.backup.lock')

server/src/mecab.py

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def token_offsets_gen(text):
 
     # Wakati inserts spaces, but only after non-space tokens.
     # We find these iteratively and then allow additional spaces to be treated
-    # as seperate tokens.
+    # as separate tokens.
 
     # XXX: MeCab rapes newlines by removing them, we need to align ourselves
     last_end = 0

server/src/projectconfig.py

@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ def __init__(self, terms, args=[]):
 
     def argument_minimum_count(self, arg):
         """
-        Returns the minumum number of times the given argument is
+        Returns the minimum number of times the given argument is
         required to appear for this type.
         """
         return self.arg_min_count.get(arg, 0)

server/src/server.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 from thread import allocate_lock
 
 ### Constants
-# This handling of version_info is strictly for backwards compability
+# This handling of version_info is strictly for backwards compatibility
 PY_VER_STR = '%d.%d.%d-%s-%d' % tuple(version_info)
 REQUIRED_PY_VERSION = (2, 5, 0, 'alpha', 1)
 REQUIRED_PY_VERSION_STR = '%d.%d.%d-%s-%d' % tuple(REQUIRED_PY_VERSION)
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def _miss_config_msg():
             ) % (CONF_FNAME, CONF_TEMPLATE_FNAME, CONF_FNAME, 
                 CONF_TEMPLATE_FNAME, CONF_FNAME)
 
-# Check for existance and sanity of the configuration
+# Check for existence and sanity of the configuration
 def _config_check():
     from message import Messager
 
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ def serve(params, client_ip, client_hostname, cookie_data):
     # Do we have a Python version compatibly with our libs?
     if (version_info[0] != REQUIRED_PY_VERSION[0] or
             version_info < REQUIRED_PY_VERSION):
-        # Bail with hand-writen JSON, this is very fragile to protocol changes
+        # Bail with hand-written JSON, this is very fragile to protocol changes
         return cookie_hdrs, ((JSON_HDR, ),
                 ('''
 {

server/src/ssplit.py

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ def _text_by_offsets_gen(text, offsets):
         ret = [o for o in jp_sentence_boundary_gen(sentence)]
         ans = [(1, 5), (6, 12), (12, 15), (16, 18)]
         assert ret == ans, '%s != %s' % (ret, ans)
-        print 'Succesful!'
+        print 'Successful!'
 
         sentence = ' One of these days Jimmy, one of these days. Boom! Kaboom '
         print 'Sentence:', sentence
@@ -191,4 +191,4 @@ def _text_by_offsets_gen(text, offsets):
         ret = [o for o in en_sentence_boundary_gen(sentence)]
         ans = [(1, 44), (45, 50), (51, 57)]
         assert ret == ans, '%s != %s' % (ret, ans)
-        print 'Succesful!'
+        print 'Successful!'