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[gnuastro-commits] master 4130107: Minor typo corrections in book
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Mohammad Akhlaghi |
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[gnuastro-commits] master 4130107: Minor typo corrections in book |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:44:32 -0500 (EST) |
branch: master
commit 41301075aa70dcaa47ca1145f0a84808b8aae817
Author: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>
Commit: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>
Minor typo corrections in book
While reading over the FITS library section of the book, I noticed a few
typos and parts that could be made more clear. They are now corrected.
A minor typo was also corrected in the "Invoking aststatistics" section.
---
doc/gnuastro.texi | 21 +++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/gnuastro.texi b/doc/gnuastro.texi
index a9b19fa..9142d4d 100644
--- a/doc/gnuastro.texi
+++ b/doc/gnuastro.texi
@@ -13028,9 +13028,9 @@ dataset.
@cindex AWK
@cindex GNU AWK
-The group of options below can used to get a single value measurement of
-the whole dataset. They will print only the requested value as one field in
-a line/row, like the @option{--mean}, @option{--median} options. These
+The group of options below can be used to get single value measurement(s)
+of the whole dataset. They will print only the requested value as one field
+in a line/row, like the @option{--mean}, @option{--median} options. These
options can be called any number of times and in any order. The outputs of
all such options will be printed on one line following each other (with a
space character between them). This feature makes these options very useful
@@ -21116,14 +21116,15 @@ The FITS format is the most common format to store
data (images and tables)
in astronomy. The CFITSIO library already provides a very good low-level
collection of functions for manipulating FITS data. The low-level nature of
CFITSIO is defined for versatility and portability. As a result, even a
-simple a basic operation, like reading an image or table column into
+simple and basic operation, like reading an image or table column into
memory, will require a special sequence of CFITSIO function calls which can
-be inconvenient and buggy to manage in separate locations. Therefore
-Gnuastro library provides wrappers for CFITSIO functions to make it much
-easier to read/write/modify FITS file data, header keywords and
-extensions. Hence, if you feel these functions don't exactly do what you
-want, we strongly recommend reading the CFITSIO manual to use its great
-features directly.
+be inconvenient and buggy to manage in separate locations. To ease this
+process, Gnuastro's library provides wrappers for CFITSIO functions. With
+these, it much easier to read, write, or modify FITS file data, header
+keywords and extensions. Hence, if you feel these functions don't exactly
+do what you want, we strongly recommend reading the CFITSIO manual to use
+its great features directly (afterwards, send us your wrappers so we can
+include it here for others to benefit also).
All the functions and macros introduced in this section are declared in
@file{gnuastro/fits.h}. When you include this header, you are also
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