diff --git a/chapter02/hostreqs.xml b/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
index 546555e9b..3dc451856 100644
--- a/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
+++ b/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@
minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most
modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will
place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of
- <package-name>-devel
or
- <package-name>-dev.
Be sure to install those if
- your distribution provides them.
+ <package-name>-devel
+ or
+ <package-name>-dev.
+ Be sure to install those if your distribution provides them.
Earlier versions of the listed software packages may work, but have
not been tested.
diff --git a/chapter02/mounting.xml b/chapter02/mounting.xml
index 60e5cdc62..4db0f5bfc 100644
--- a/chapter02/mounting.xml
+++ b/chapter02/mounting.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
LFS environment variable described in the previous section.
- Strictly speaking, one cannot "mount a partition." One mounts the file
+ Strictly speaking, one cannot mount a partition.
One mounts the file
system embedded in that partition. But since a single partition can't contain
more than one file system, people often speak of the partition and the
associated file system as if they were one and the same.
diff --git a/chapter07/python.xml b/chapter07/python.xml
index 8268df8e4..872cf4a36 100644
--- a/chapter07/python.xml
+++ b/chapter07/python.xml
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@
Some Python 3 modules can't be built now because the dependencies
are not installed yet. For the ssl module,
- a message Python requires a OpenSSL 1.1.1 or
- newer
is outputted.
+ a message Python requires a OpenSSL 1.1.1 or
+ newer is outputted.
The message should be ignored. Just make sure the toplevel
make command has not failed. The optional
modules are not needed now and they will be built in
diff --git a/chapter08/coreutils.xml b/chapter08/coreutils.xml
index 3357fabc5..96c46996d 100644
--- a/chapter08/coreutils.xml
+++ b/chapter08/coreutils.xml
@@ -1261,8 +1261,8 @@ sed -i 's/"1"/"8"/' /usr/share/man/man8/chroot.8
yes
- Repeatedly outputs y,
or a given string, until
- killed
+ Repeatedly outputs y or a given string,
+ until killed
yes
diff --git a/chapter08/expect.xml b/chapter08/expect.xml
index 95dc8beae..810bc55a2 100644
--- a/chapter08/expect.xml
+++ b/chapter08/expect.xml
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@
make test
If any test fails with the message
- The system has no more ptys. Ask your system
- administrator to create more,
it indicates
+ The system has no more ptys. Ask your system
+ administrator to create more, it indicates
you've not mounted the
devpts file system
correctly. You need to exit from the chroot environment, read
diff --git a/chapter08/stripping.xml b/chapter08/stripping.xml
index 6c3cc7c98..5ce0235d3 100644
--- a/chapter08/stripping.xml
+++ b/chapter08/stripping.xml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
The ELF loader's name is ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 on 64-bit systems
and ld-linux.so.2 on 32-bit systems. The construct below selects the
correct name for the current architecture, excluding anything ending
- with g,
in case the commands below have already been
+ with g, in case the commands below have already been
run.
diff --git a/chapter09/networkd.xml b/chapter09/networkd.xml
index 363e8d883..6c2935de1 100644
--- a/chapter09/networkd.xml
+++ b/chapter09/networkd.xml
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@
- Mask udev's .link file for the default policy:
+ Mask udev's .link file
+ for the default policy:
ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link
@@ -101,9 +102,9 @@
Create a manual naming scheme, for example by naming the
interfaces something like internet0,
dmz0, or lan0.
- To do that, create .link files in /etc/systemd/network/ that
- select an explicit name or a better naming scheme for your
- network interfaces. For example:
+ To do that, create .link
+ files in /etc/systemd/network/ that select an explicit name or a
+ better naming scheme for your network interfaces. For example:
cat > /etc/systemd/network/10-ether0.link << "EOF"
diff --git a/chapter09/usage.xml b/chapter09/usage.xml
index 85b35d16d..7c4f18600 100644
--- a/chapter09/usage.xml
+++ b/chapter09/usage.xml
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ EOF
languages, because there accents are added to unaccented ASCII
characters, or two ASCII characters are composed together. However, in
UTF-8 mode it is a problem; e.g., for the Greek language, where one
- sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter alpha.
+ sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter α.
The solution is either to avoid the use of UTF-8, or to install the
X window system, which doesn't have this limitation, in its input
handling.