[latex3-commits] [latex2e-public] r1464 - from barbara

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Author: carlisle
Date: 2017-04-14 00:29:45 +0200 (Fri, 14 Apr 2017)
New Revision: 1464

Modified:
   trunk/doc/ltnews27.tex
Log:
from barbara

Modified: trunk/doc/ltnews27.tex
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/ltnews27.tex	2017-04-13 22:02:37 UTC (rev 1463)
+++ trunk/doc/ltnews27.tex	2017-04-13 22:29:45 UTC (rev 1464)
@@ -55,20 +55,20 @@
 1st of February or 2nd of January.
 
 However there is another date format, formalised by the
-International standard, ISO~8601. The basic format defined by this
+International Standard ISO~8601. The basic format defined by this
 standard is functionally equivalent to the \LaTeX\ format, but using
 \texttt{-} rather than \texttt{/}. This date format is now supported
 in many Operating Systems and applications
 (for example the \verb|date --iso-8601| command in Linux and similar systems).
 
 From this release, \LaTeX\ will accept ISO format date strings in the
-date argument of \verb|\ProvidesPackage|, \verb|\usepackage| etc.
+date argument of \verb|\ProvidesPackage|, \verb|\usepackage|, etc.
 Currently we recommend that you do not use this format in any packages
-that need to work with older \LaTeX\ releases. 
-The \textsf{latexrelease} package may be used with older releases to
+that need to work with older \LaTeX\ releases; 
+the \textsf{latexrelease} package may be used with older releases to
  add this functionality. This change is handled in a special way  by
  \textsf{latexrelease}: The package always adds support for ISO dates
-whatever format date is requested, this is required so that the
+whatever format date is requested; this is required so that the
 necessary date comparisons may be made.
 
 The new functionality can be seen in the startup banner which
@@ -115,9 +115,9 @@
 introduced, this is initialised to $-1$ but is set at
 \verb|\begin{document}| to the language in force at that time if it
   has not been set by preamble code. This is very similar to the
-  handling of the default color.  and is used in a similar way to
+  handling of the default color, and is used in a similar way to
   normalise the settings for page head and foot as described above.
-Users should not normally need to set this explicitly but it expected that
+Users should not normally need to set this explicitly but it is expected that
 language packages such as \textsf{babel} may set this if the default
 behaviour is not suitable.
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 lines of a paragraph that have ascenders or descenders could be set
 with \emph{closer} line spacing than lines without. This can easily
 happen if you use a \verb|\parbox| in an AMS alignment, as they use a
-relativly large value of \verb|\lineskiplimit|.
+relatively large value of \verb|\lineskiplimit|.
 As usual, the \textsf{latexrelease} package may be used to
 force the older behavior.