[MPlayer-dev-eng] Doc overhaul, first example, second revision

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sun Mar 3 19:46:30 CET 2002


Daniel Egger writes:
 > 
 > here it comes, the second revision:
 > - Spelling fixes by Diego Biurrun, thanks a lot

I ran it through ispell, it spots even more spelling errors than I
do.  Patch attached.

 > - Specified default font to be Arial, Helvetica or sans-serif
 >   for Gabucino using CSS.

Looks fine here with Mozilla and Netscape 4.77.  Enjoy the glory of
Arial fonts.

Diego



--- bugreports.html.orig	Sun Mar  3 16:37:47 2002
+++ bugreports.html	Sun Mar  3 18:29:27 2002
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <p>
     If it didn't help please refer to <a
       href="documentation.html#appendix_d">Appendix D</a> and the rest of the
-    documentation. If your problem is not known or not solveable by our
+    documentation. If your problem is not known or not solvable by our
     instructions, then please report the bug.
     </p>
 
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@
     Please don't send bugreports privately to individual developers.  This is
     community work and thus there might be several people interested in it.
     Also sometimes other users already experienced your troubles and have a
-    solution in hand how to circumvent a problem even if it's a bug in mplayers
+    solution in hand how to circumvent a problem even if it's a bug in mplayer
     code. <br />
-    The language of this list is <strong>english</strong>.
+    The language of this list is <strong>English</strong>.
     </p>
 
     <p>
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@
     <h3>System information</h3>
 
     <ul>
-      <li>Your linux distribution or operating system eg.:
+      <li>Your Linux distribution or operating system e.g.:
 	<ul>
-	  <li>RedHat 7.1</li>
+	  <li>Red Hat 7.1</li>
 	  <li>Slackware 7.0 + devel packs from 7.1 ...</li>
 	</ul>
       </li>
@@ -91,27 +91,27 @@
 
     <ul>
       <li>
-	CPU info (linux only):<br />
+	CPU info (Linux only):<br />
 	<code>cat /proc/cpuinfo</code>
       </li>
       <li>
-	Videocard manufacturer and model e.g.:<br />
+	Video card manufacturer and model e.g.:<br />
 	<ul>
 	  <li>ASUS V3800U chip: nVidia TNT2 Ultra pro 32MB SDRAM</li>
 	  <li>Matrox G400 DH 32MB SGRAM</li>
 	</ul>
       </li>
       <li>
-	Videodriver types &amp; versions, eg.:
+	Video driver types &amp; versions, e.g.:
 	<ul>
 	  <li>X built-in driver</li>
-	  <li>nvidia 0.9.623</li>
+	  <li>nVidia 0.9.623</li>
 	  <li>Utah-GLX CVS 2001-02-17</li>
 	  <li>DRI from X 4.0.3</li>
 	</ul>
       </li>
       <li>
-	Soundcard type &amp; driver, eg.: <br />
+	Sound card type &amp; driver, e.g.: <br />
 	<ul>
 	  <li>Creative SBLive! Gold with OSS driver from oss.creative.com</li>
 	  <li>Creative SB16 with OSS drivers of kernel</li>
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
 	</ul>
       </li>
       <li>
-	if in doubt include <code>lspci -vv</code> output on linux systems
+	if in doubt include <code>lspci -vv</code> output on Linux systems
       </li>
     </ul>
 
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
 
     <p>
       If your problem is specific to one or more files, then please upload the
-      offfender(s) to:<br />
+      offender(s) to:<br />
       <a href="ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/">ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/</a><br />
       Also upload a small .txt file having the same basename as your file,
       which describes the problem you're having with the particular file.<br />
@@ -165,11 +165,11 @@
     <h3>For crashes</h3>
     
     <p>
-      If you have a coredump of the crash continue reading the next
+      If you have a core dump of the crash continue reading the next
       paragraph, otherwise skip it.
     </p>
 
-    <h4>How to receive meaningful information from a coredump</h4>
+    <h4>How to receive meaningful information from a core dump</h4>
     
     <p>
       Please create the following command file:
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
     </pre>
 
     <p>
-      Then simply execute the following on your commandline:<br />
+      Then simply execute the following on your command line:<br />
       <code>gdb mplayer --core=core -batch --command=command_file &gt; mplayer.bug
       </code>
     </p>
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
       Type: <br />
       <code>run -v [options-to-mplayer] filename</code><br />
       and reproduce your crash. As soon as you did it, gdb will
-      return you to the commandline prompt where you'll enter<br />
+      return you to the command line prompt where you'll enter<br />
       <code>bt</code><br />
       <code>disass $eip-32 $eip+32</code><br />
       and send the complete output to us.



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