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@@ -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