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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2014-02-27 00:01:50 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2014-02-27 00:01:50 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pgf/text-en/pgfmanual-en-guidelines.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pgf/text-en/pgfmanual-en-guidelines.tex index 4436a3ab3fb..5a5a7b75957 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pgf/text-en/pgfmanual-en-guidelines.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pgf/text-en/pgfmanual-en-guidelines.tex @@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ repeat them in the following guidelines. The first thing you should ask yourself when someone presents a bunch of guidelines is: Should I really follow these guidelines? This is an -important questions, because there are good reasons not to follow -general guidelines. The person who setup the guidelines may have had other +important question, because there are good reasons not to follow +general guidelines. The person who set up the guidelines may have had other objectives than you do. For example, a guideline might say ``use the color red for emphasis.'' While this guideline makes perfect sense for, say, a presentation using a projector, red ``color'' has the \emph{opposite} effect of ``emphasis'' when printed using a -black-and-white printer. Guidelines were almost always setup to +black-and-white printer. Guidelines were almost always set up to address a specific situation. If you are not in this situation, following a guideline can do more harm than good. @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The second thing you should be aware of is the basic rule of typography is: ``Every rule can be broken, as long as you are \emph{aware} that you are breaking a rule.'' This rule also applies to graphics. Phrased differently, the basic rule states: ``The only -mistakes in typography are things done is ignorance.'' When you are +mistakes in typography are things done in ignorance.'' When you are aware of a rule and when you decide that breaking the rule has a desirable effect, break the rule. @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ be inlined, meaning they are somewhere ``in the middle of the text'' or they can be placed in stand-alone ``figures.'' Since printers (the people) like to have their pages ``filled,'' (both for aesthetic and economic reasons) stand-alone figures may traditionally be placed on -pages in the document far removed from the main text that refers to +pages in the document far away from the main text that refers to them. \LaTeX\ and \TeX\ tend to encourage this ``drifting away'' of graphics for technical reasons. @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ following guidelines: \item Labels should be legible. They should not only have a reasonably large size, they also should not be obscured by lines or other - text. This also applies to of lines and text \emph{behind} the + text. This also applies to labels of lines and text \emph{behind} the labels. \item Labels should be ``in place.'' Whenever there is enough space, @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ default settings of programs like \textsc{gnuplot} or Excel are to blame for this since these programs make it very convenient to create bad plots. -The first question you should ask yourself when creating a plot is, +The first question you should ask yourself when creating a plot is: Are there enough data points to merit a plot? If the answer is ``not really,'' use a table. @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ the graphic: Sadly, the graphic does not allow us to answer \emph{a single one of these questions}. The table answers all of them directly, except for the last one. In essence, the information density of the graphic is very -nearly zero. The table has a much higher information density; despite +close to zero. The table has a much higher information density; despite the fact that it uses quite a lot of white space to present a few numbers. Here is the list of things that went wrong with the 3D-bar diagram: \begin{itemize} @@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that can distract readers: should be avoided in general. Do not use different dashing patterns to differentiate curves in - plots. You loose data points this way and the eye is not + plots. You lose data points this way and the eye is not particularly good at ``grouping things according to a dashing pattern.'' The eye is \emph{much} better at grouping things according to colors. @@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that can distract readers: horizontal and vertical lines or just dots are almost always distracting and, usually, serve no real purpose. \item - Background images and shadings distract and only seldom add + Background images and shadings distract and only seldomly add anything of importance to a graphic. \item Cute little clip arts can easily draw attention away from the |