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Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual

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Ivan Kozik 2013-08-10 21:36:16 +00:00 • committed by Eelco Dolstra
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doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
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@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ Laziness means that arguments to functions are evaluated only when
they are needed. Functional means that functions are
<quote>normal</quote> values that can be passed around and manipulated
in interesting ways. The language is not a full-featured, general
purpose language. It's main job is to describe packages,
purpose language. Its main job is to describe packages,
compositions of packages, and the variability within
packages.</para>
@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ configureFlags = "
<literal>''</literal>, i.e., <literal>''${</literal>.
<literal>''</literal> can be escaped by prefixing it with
<literal>'</literal>, i.e., <literal>'''</literal>. Finally,
linefeed, carriage-return and tab characters can be writted as
linefeed, carriage-return and tab characters can be written as
<literal>''\n</literal>, <literal>''\r</literal>,
<literal>''\t</literal>.</para>
@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
absolute at parse time relative to the directory of the Nix
expression that contained it. For instance, if a Nix expression in
<filename>/foo/bar/bla.nix</filename> refers to
<filename>../xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>, the absolutised path is
<filename>../xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>, the absolute path is
<filename>/foo/xyzzy/fnord.nix</filename>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Booleans</emphasis> with values