svn commit: r42920 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Wed Oct 9 21:08:42 UTC 2013

Author: pgj
Date: Wed Oct  9 21:08:41 2013
New Revision: 42920
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42920

Log:
  - Minor improvements for the Newcons report

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Wed Oct  9 19:25:44 2013	(r42919)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Wed Oct  9 21:08:41 2013	(r42920)
@@ -1560,14 +1560,14 @@
     </links>
 
     <body>
-      <p>The Newcons project is aimed to replace old graphic virtual
-	terminal named "syscons".  The main objectives are: support
-	Unicode characters and move away from the dependency on fixed
-	graphic modes (such as VGA and VESA) and built-in services (such
-	as BIOS).</p>
+      <p>The Newcons project is aimed to replace the old
+	<tt>syscons(4)</tt>-based virtual terminals.  The main
+	objectives are: support Unicode characters, and move away from
+	the dependency on fixed VGA and VESA graphics modes and built-in
+	BIOS services.</p>
 
-      <p>This project was started by Ed Schouten originally, and in 2013
-	it already featured the following (among many others):</p>
+      <p>This project was originally started by Ed Schouten, and it
+	already featured the following (among many others) in 2013:</p>
 
       <ul>
 	<li>Unicode fonts with Latin, Cyrillic and some more simple
@@ -1575,21 +1575,22 @@
 	<li>Unicode output support.</li>
 	<li>Graphics mode support.</li>
 	<li>Text mode support.</li>
-	<li><tt>sysmouse(4)</tt> (without copy-paste) support.</li>
+	<li><tt>sysmouse(4)</tt> support, without copy/paste.</li>
       </ul>
 
-      <p>And these has been extended by the following items
+      <p>And these have been extended by the following items
 	recently:</p>
 
       <ul>
-	<li>History, that is, the ability to scroll via terminal
-	  history.  Old, separate history buffer has been removed.</li>
+	<li>History, that is, the ability to scroll through the terminal
+	  history.  The old, separate history buffer has been
+	  removed.</li>
 
 	<li>The history is implemented by a circular buffer, that is, no buffer
-	  overflow, but unlimited scrolling.</li>
+	  overflow but unlimited scrolling.</li>
 
 	<li><tt>VT_PROCESS</tt> mode, a way to hold the terminal.  For
-	  examle, X.Org uses this features to prevent the user from
+	  example, X.Org uses this feature to prevent the user from
 	  switching terminals.</li>
 
 	<li><tt>drm2/fb_helper</tt>, the KMS driver.  This binds Newcons
@@ -1615,7 +1616,7 @@
 
       <p>This project is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation.  Many
 	thanks to Ed Schouten, who started the Newcons project and did
-	most work.</p>
+	most of the work.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
@@ -1631,7 +1632,7 @@
 
       <task>Bug fixes.</task>
 
-      <task>Integrate into &os; <tt>HEAD</tt>.</task>
+      <task>Integrate into &os; <tt>head</tt>.</task>
 
       <task>Integrate into &os; 10.0.</task>
 
