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ref: b3848a1e4f66defca7095bedd8dc5c4ba539f59d
parent: 67c2baf190fa4d1b82c308ceb807076b71b4b866
author: Nayuki Minase <[email protected]>
date: Sun Aug 26 11:18:41 EDT 2012

Tweak wording in manpage docs.

--- a/doc/mc.1
+++ b/doc/mc.1
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@
 
 .TP
 .B -d [flTri]
-Prints debugging dumps. Additional options may be given to give more
+Print debugging dumps. Additional options may be given to give more
 debugging information for specific intermediate states of the compilation.
 
 .TP
 .B -h
-Prints a summary of the available options.
+Print a summary of the available options.
 
 .TP
 .B -I path
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@
 
 .TP
 .B -o output-file
-Specifies that the generated code should be placed in
+Specify that the generated code should be placed in
 
 .TP
 .B -S
-Generate assembly instead of an object file.
+Generate assembly code instead of an object file.
 
 .SH EXAMPLE
 .EX
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 .EE
 
 .SH FILES
-The source for this compiler is available from
+The source code for this compiler is available from
 .B git://git.eigenstate.org/git/ori/mc2.git
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 There are virtually no optimizations done, and the generated source is
 often very poorly performing.
 .PP
-The current calling convention is stack, and not register, based, even
-on architectures where it should be register based.
+The current calling convention is stack-based and not register-based, even
+on architectures where it should be register-based.
 .PP
-The calling convention is not C compatible.
+The calling convention is not compatible with C.
--- a/doc/muse.1
+++ b/doc/muse.1
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 including all of the exported symbols. If an output file name is not given,
 and we are not merging usefiles, then an input file named
 .I filename.myr
-will have a usefile named
+will generate a usefile named
 .I filename.use
-generated.
+\&.
 
 If the filename does not end with the suffix
 .I .myr
@@ -28,10 +28,9 @@
 will simply be appended to it.
 
 .PP
-The muse program is architecture independent, and a usefile generated
-on one architecture will work with another. However, the format of the
+The output of muse is architecture-independent. However, the format of the
 generated file is not stable, and is not guaranteed to work across
-compiler versions.
+different compiler versions.
 
 .PP
 The muse options are:
@@ -38,12 +37,12 @@
 
 .TP
 .B -d [flTri]
-Prints debugging dumps. Additional options may be given to give more
+Print debugging dumps. Additional options may be given to give more
 debugging information for specific intermediate states of the compilation.
 
 .TP
 .B -h
-Prints a summary of the available options.
+Print a summary of the available options.
 
 .TP
 .B -I path
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@
 
 .TP
 .B -o output-file
-Specifies that the generated usefile should be named 
+Specify that the generated usefile should be named 
 .I output-file
 
 .TP