Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make

translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libnis.tex b/Doc/lib/libnis.tex
index 14f47f0..1d52868 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libnis.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libnis.tex
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@
   \platform{UNIX}
 \moduleauthor{Fred Gansevles}{Fred.Gansevles@cs.utwente.nl}
 \sectionauthor{Moshe Zadka}{moshez@zadka.site.co.il}
-\modulesynopsis{Interface to Sun's NIS (a.k.a. Yellow Pages) library.}
+\modulesynopsis{Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages) library.}
 
 The \module{nis} module gives a thin wrapper around the NIS library, useful
 for central administration of several hosts.
 
 Because NIS exists only on \UNIX{} systems, this module is
-only available for \UNIX{}.
+only available for \UNIX.
 
 The \module{nis} module defines the following functions:
 
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ The \module{nis} module defines the following functions:
 Return the match for \var{key} in map \var{mapname}, or raise an
 error (\exception{nis.error}) if there is none.
 Both should be strings, \var{key} is 8-bit clean.
-Return value is an arbitrary array of bytes (i.e., may contain \code{NULL}
+Return value is an arbitrary array of bytes (may contain \code{NULL}
 and other joys).
 
-Note that \var{mapname} is first checked if it is an alias to another name.
+Note that \var{mapname} is first checked if it is an alias to another
+name.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{cat}{mapname}
@@ -31,7 +32,8 @@ Return a dictionary mapping \var{key} to \var{value} such that
 Note that both keys and values of the dictionary are arbitrary
 arrays of bytes.
 
-Note that \var{mapname} is first checked if it is an alias to another name.
+Note that \var{mapname} is first checked if it is an alias to another
+name.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{maps}{}