[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] man page grammar fixes

Lou Logan lou at lrcd.com
Sat Aug 10 05:03:04 CEST 2013


On Fri, Aug 9, 2013, at 06:19 PM, Bryce W. Harrington wrote:
> The first sentence of each of these man pages are worded a bit
> awkwardly.  I think these minor copy-edits should make them
> clearer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <b.harrington at samsung.com>
> ---
>  doc/demuxers.texi  |    2 +-
>  doc/ffmpeg.texi    |    2 +-
>  doc/outdevs.texi   |    2 +-
>  doc/protocols.texi |    4 ++--
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/demuxers.texi b/doc/demuxers.texi
> index e18448f..437d1ca 100644
> --- a/doc/demuxers.texi
> +++ b/doc/demuxers.texi
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  @chapter Demuxers
>  @c man begin DEMUXERS
>  
> -Demuxers are configured elements in FFmpeg which allow to read the
> +Demuxers are configured elements in FFmpeg that can read the
>  multimedia streams from a particular type of file.

Are the "are configured elements in FFmpeg" phrases really necessary? It
does not contribute much to the description other than needless
verbosity in my opinion.

Other than that your changes are an improvement and look good to me.

Lou


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