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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-07-08 06:03:50 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-07-08 06:03:50 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-24ec8f28bbf7a0046eb2abf8a23066c22df539af.tar.xz
* coreutils.texi (Squeezing): Separate doubled "the", so typo-checkers
don't complain.
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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 390275043..518a3f131 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2006-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+ * coreutils.texi (Squeezing): Separate doubled "the", so typo-checkers
+ don't complain.
+
* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Enforce the zeros vs. zeroes consistency.
2006-07-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 9fbb7f473..a56b05480 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -5276,7 +5276,8 @@ tr -s '\n'
@item
Find doubled occurrences of words in a document.
-For example, people often write ``the the'' with the repeated words
+@c Separate the following two "the"s, so typo checkers don't complain.
+For example, people often write ``the @w{}the'' with the repeated words
separated by a newline. The Bourne shell script below works first
by converting each sequence of punctuation and blank characters to a
single newline. That puts each ``word'' on a line by itself.