<title>Reading this Manual</title>
<para>
Most implementors only need to read a fraction of the
- material in thie manual, so a quick walkthrough of the chapters
+ material in this manual, so a quick walkthrough of the chapters
is in order.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<xref linkend="installation"/> contains installation
- instructions for &yaz;. You don't need reading this
+ instructions for &yaz;. You don't need to read this
if you expect to download &yaz; binaries.
However, the chapter contains information about how
to make <emphasis>your</emphasis> application link
<listitem>
<para>
<xref linkend="zoom"/> describes the ZOOM API of &yaz;.
- This is definitely worth a read if you wish to develop a Z39.50/SRU
+ This is definitely worth reading if you wish to develop a Z39.50/SRU
client.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<xref linkend="yaz-client"/> describes how to use the &yaz; Z39.50
- client. If you're developer and wish to test your server
+ client. If you're a developer and wish to test your server
or a server from another party, you might find this chapter
useful.
</para>
<xref linkend="odr"/> goes through the details of the
ODR module which is the work horse that encodes and decodes
BER packages. Implementors using ZOOM only, do <emphasis>not</emphasis>
- need reading this.
+ need to read this.
Most other Z39.50 implementors only need to read the first two
sections (<xref linkend="odr.introduction"/> and
<xref linkend="odr.use"/>).
level APIs of &yaz;.
</para>
<para>
- The YAZ toolkit modules is shown in figure <xref linkend="yaz.layer"/>.
+ The YAZ toolkit modules are shown in figure <xref linkend="yaz.layer"/>.
</para>
<figure id="yaz.layer">
<title>YAZ layers</title>
<note>
<para>
If you are using the premade definitions of the &asn; module, and you
- are not adding new protocol of your own, the only parts of &odr; that you
+ are not adding a new protocol of your own, the only parts of &odr; that you
need to worry about are documented in
<xref linkend="odr.use"/>.
</para>
<ulink url="&url.automake;">Automake</ulink> and
<ulink url="&url.libtool;">Libtool</ulink>
are used to generate Makefiles and configure &yaz; for the system.
- You do <emphasis>not</emphasis> these tools unless you're using the
+ You do <emphasis>not</emphasis> need these tools unless you're using the
Git version of &yaz;.
</para>
<para>
&yaz; includes a tiny ASN.1 compiler. This compiler is
written in <ulink url="&url.tcl;">Tcl</ulink>.
But as for Bison you do not need it unless you're using Git
- version of &yaz; or you're using the compiler to built own codecs
+ version of &yaz; or you're using the compiler to build your own codecs
for private ASN.1.
</para>
<para>
<replaceable>prefix</replaceable>. By default configure will
search for iconv on the system. Use this option if it
doesn't find iconv. Alternatively,
- <literal>--without-iconv</literal>, can be uset to force &yaz;
+ <literal>--without-iconv</literal>, can be used to force &yaz;
not to use iconv.
</para>
</listitem>
<replaceable>prefix</replaceable>.
Use this option if you want XSLT and XML support.
By default, configure will
- search for libxslt on the system. Use this option if it
+ search for libxslt on the system. Use this option if
libxslt is not found automatically. Alternatively,
<literal>--without-xslt</literal>, can be used to force &yaz;
not to use libxslt.
<replaceable>prefix</replaceable>.
Use this option if you want &yaz; to use XML and support SRU/Solr.
By default, configure will
- search for libxml2 on the system. Use this option if it
+ search for libxml2 on the system. Use this option if
libxml2 is not found automatically. Alternatively,
<literal>--without-xml2</literal>, can be used to force &yaz;
not to use libxml2.
This section describes how to compile - and link your own
applications using the &yaz; toolkit.
If you're used to Makefiles this shouldn't be hard. As for
- other libraries you have used before, you have to set a proper include
+ other libraries you have used before, you need to set a proper include
path for your C/C++ compiler and specify the location of
&yaz; libraries. You can do it by hand, but generally we suggest
you use the <filename>yaz-config</filename> that is generated
</para>
<note>
<para>
- libxslt depends libxml2.
+ libxslt depends on libxml2.
</para>
</note>
</listitem>
<term><filename>bin/yaz-icu.exe</filename></term>
<listitem><para>This program exposes the ICU wrapper library if that
is enabled for YAZ. Only if ICU is available this program is
- build.
+ built.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>bin/zoomtst1.exe</filename>,
<filename>bin/zoomtst2.exe</filename>, ..</term>
<listitem><para>
- Several small applications that demonstrates the ZOOM API.
+ Several small applications that demonstrate the ZOOM API.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
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