From 87cd98eb897c1168d7928764f0140a443be21483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Benner <tombenner@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 14:59:04 -0500
Subject: Fix grammar and formatting issues

---
 system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml | 6 +++---
 system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml  | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'system')

diff --git a/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml b/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml
index 0b7111f183..6c513162c0 100644
--- a/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml
+++ b/system/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.xml
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ spawn(tut15, ping, [3, Pong_PID]),</code>
     <code type="none">
 tut15:ping(3, Pong_PID)</code>
     <p>&lt;0.36.0&gt; is the return value from the <c>start</c> function.</p>
-    <p>The process "pong"  now does:</p>
+    <p>The process "pong" now does:</p>
     <code type="none">
 receive
     finished ->
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Ping_PID ! pong</code>
 Pid ! Message</code>
     <p>I.e. <c>Message</c> (any Erlang term) is sent to the process
       with identity <c>Pid</c>.</p>
-    <p>After sending the message <c>pong</c>, to the process "ping",
+    <p>After sending the message <c>pong</c> to the process "ping",
       "pong" calls the <c>pong</c> function again, which causes it to
       get back to the <c>receive</c> again and wait for another message.
       Now let's look at the process "ping". Recall that it was started
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ $ <input>chmod 400 .erlang.cookie</input></pre>
     <p>The <c>chmod</c> above make the <c>.erlang.cookie</c> file
       accessible only by the owner of the file. This is a requirement.</p>
     <p>When you start an Erlang system which is going to talk to other
-      Erlang systems, you must give it a name, eg: </p>
+      Erlang systems, you must give it a name, e.g.: </p>
     <pre>
 $ <input>erl -sname my_name</input></pre>
     <p>We will see more details of this later. If you want to
diff --git a/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml b/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml
index 3636b23797..699b9487ed 100644
--- a/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml
+++ b/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ mult(X, Y) ->
       called variables. Variables must start with a capital letter
       (see the chapter
       <seealso marker="doc/reference_manual:expressions">"Variables"</seealso>
-      in the Erlang Reference Manual). Examples of variable could be
+      in the Erlang Reference Manual). Examples of variables could be
       <c>Number</c>, <c>ShoeSize</c>, <c>Age</c> etc.</p>
   </section>
 
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ convert(N, centimeter) ->
       Consider:</p>
     <code type="none">
 tut2:convert(3, inch).</code>
-    <p>Does this mean that 3 is in inches? or that 3 is in centimeters
+    <p>Does this mean that 3 is in inches? Or that 3 is in centimeters
       and we want to convert it to inches? So Erlang has a way to group
       things together to make things more understandable. We call these
       <em>tuples</em>. Tuples are surrounded by "{" and "}".</p>
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ list_max([Head|Rest], Result_so_far)  ->
       the next part of the function.</p>
     <p>Some useful operators in guards are, &lt; less than, &gt;
       greater than, == equal, &gt;= greater or equal, =&lt; less or
-      equal, /= not equal. (see the chapter
+      equal, /= not equal. (See the chapter
       <seealso marker="doc/reference_manual:expressions">"Guard Sequences"</seealso> in the Erlang Reference Manual.)</p>
     <p>To change the above program to one which works out the minimum
       value of the element in a list, all we would need to do is to
@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ format_temps(List_of_cities) ->
     <code type="none">
 [City | convert_list_to_c(Rest)];</code>
     <p>We go on doing this until we get to the end of the list (i.e.
-      the list is empty:</p>
+      the list is empty):</p>
     <code type="none">
 convert_list_to_c([]) ->
     [].</code>
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