From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus,com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:58:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix duplicated comments.
X-Git-Tag: 1.0~63
X-Git-Url: http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b1737126632d9266f0374924f8c25ab0a333e416;p=mad.git

Fix duplicated comments.
---

diff --git a/doc/mad-manual.xml b/doc/mad-manual.xml
index 2d58116..f641a50 100644
--- a/doc/mad-manual.xml
+++ b/doc/mad-manual.xml
@@ -303,11 +303,6 @@ of the period had separate forms for these character pairs,
 typewriters of the period did not have.  This distinction has been
 added in the present text.</para>
 
-<para>Some program listings in the original were missing continuation
-punches that appear to be required by the language; this was probably
-due to transcription errors in the original.  These have been
-corrected, and the corrections noted in XML comments.</para>
-
 <para>Most of the original listings were typed so there was whitespace
 between remark or continuation punches and following statements or
 comments. The language's card-based, column-sensitive format did not
@@ -351,14 +346,6 @@ the original style in DocBook.</para>
 hand-drawn across them).  The original also some contained hand-drawn
 script characters:</para>
 
-<para>The above notes fail to properly convey just how primitive the
-original document looks to a modern eye, and this is worth noting
-because this transcription into DocBook makes it look a lot less so.
-Standards have risen in a world saturated with the Web and cheap page
-printers.  The original manual's monospace fonts on yellowing paper
-with hand-drawn figures and special characters look quaint and
-ugly by contrast.</para>
-
 <informaltable>
 <tgroup cols='2'>
 <thead>
@@ -435,6 +422,14 @@ had an undocumented capability to detect most continued statements
 automatically. We have assumed the former and restored needed
 continuation punches in several listings.</para>
 
+<para>The above notes fail to properly convey just how primitive the
+original document looks to a modern eye, and this is worth noting
+because transcription into DocBook makes it look a lot less so.
+Standards have risen in a world saturated with the Web and cheap page
+printers.  The original manual's monospace fonts on yellowing paper
+with hand-drawn figures and special characters look quaint and
+ugly by contrast.</para>
+
 </sect1>
 </preface>
 <preface><title>The Michigan Algorithm Decoder</title>