Lots of small corrections by Andrew Kuchling (plus all new rotor docs)

5 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref.tex b/Doc/ref/ref.tex
index 11a5d08..9fb37b6 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref.tex
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	E-mail: {\tt guido@cwi.nl}
 }
 
-\date{14 Jul 1994 \\ Release 1.0.3} % XXX update before release!
+\date{14 July 1994 \\ Release 1.0.3} % XXX update before release!
 
 % Tell \index to actually write the .idx file
 \makeindex
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref1.tex b/Doc/ref/ref1.tex
index 169c244..0b006ba 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref1.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref1.tex
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ It is not intended as a tutorial.
 
 While I am trying to be as precise as possible, I chose to use English
 rather than formal specifications for everything except syntax and
-lexical analysis.  This should make the document better understandable
+lexical analysis.  This should make the document more understandable
 to the average reader, but will leave room for ambiguities.
 Consequently, if you were coming from Mars and tried to re-implement
 Python from this document alone, you might have to guess things and in
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
index 67f22f8..c08f829 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
@@ -354,7 +354,8 @@ meaning:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 (       )       [       ]       {       }
-;       ,       :       .       `       =
+,       :       .       "       `       '
+=	;
 \end{verbatim}
 
 The following printing ASCII characters are not used in Python.  Their
@@ -363,7 +364,7 @@ error:
 \index{ASCII}
 
 \begin{verbatim}
-@       $       "       ?
+@       $       ?
 \end{verbatim}
 
 They may be used by future versions of the language though!
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref4.tex b/Doc/ref/ref4.tex
index c14fada..c4c4abc 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref4.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref4.tex
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 A {\em code block} is a piece of Python program text that can be
 executed as a unit, such as a module, a class definition or a function
 body.  Some code blocks (like modules) are executed only once, others
-(like function bodies) may be executed many times.  Code block may
+(like function bodies) may be executed many times.  Code blocks may
 textually contain other code blocks.  Code blocks may invoke other
 code blocks (that may or may not be textually contained in them) as
 part of their execution, e.g. by invoking (calling) a function.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ When a global name is not found in the global name space, it is
 searched in the list of ``built-in'' names (which is actually the
 global name space of the module \verb@__builtin__@).  When a name is not
 found at all, the \verb@NameError@ exception is raised.%
-\footnote{If the code block contains \verb@exec@ statement or the
+\footnote{If the code block contains \verb@exec@ statements or the
 construct \verb@from ... import *@, the semantics of names not
 explicitly mentioned in a \verb@global@ statement change subtly: name
 lookup first searches the local name space, then the global one, then
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref5.tex b/Doc/ref/ref5.tex
index 3e60931..a4a7b53 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref5.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref5.tex
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ tuples are immutable, the rules for literals apply here.
 (Note that tuples are not formed by the parentheses, but rather by use
 of the comma operator.  The exception is the empty tuple, for which
 parentheses {\em are} required --- allowing unparenthesized ``nothing''
-in expressions would causes ambiguities and allow common typos to
+in expressions would cause ambiguities and allow common typos to
 pass uncaught.)
 \index{comma}
 \indexii{tuple}{display}
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ comma-separated values is required.
 An expression (condition) list containing at least one comma yields a
 tuple.  The length of the tuple is the number of expressions
 (conditions) in the list.  The expressions (conditions) are evaluated
-from left to right.  (Conditions lists are used syntactically is a few
+from left to right.  (Condition lists are used syntactically is a few
 places where no tuple is constructed but a list of values is needed
 nevertheless.)
 \obindex{tuple}