[27489] trunk/doc/guide/new/xml/intro.xml

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Revision: 27489
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/27489
Author:   markd at macports.org
Date:     2007-08-04 19:36:47 -0700 (Sat, 04 Aug 2007)

Log Message:
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Intro text refinement.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/doc/guide/new/xml/intro.xml

Modified: trunk/doc/guide/new/xml/intro.xml
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--- trunk/doc/guide/new/xml/intro.xml	2007-08-05 01:41:57 UTC (rev 27488)
+++ trunk/doc/guide/new/xml/intro.xml	2007-08-05 02:36:47 UTC (rev 27489)
@@ -4,29 +4,31 @@
 <chapter>
   <title>Introduction</title>
 
-  <para>MacPorts is a system for building, installing, and managing free and
-  open source software. MacPorts "ports" are definitions of applications,
-  their characteristics, and any files or special instructions required to
-  install them in files named <filename>Portfile</filename>s, so MacPorts may
-  automatically fetch, patch, compile, and install ported applications.</para>
+  <para>MacPorts is a system for compiling, installing, and managing free and
+  open source software. A MacPorts "port" is a set of specifications contained
+  in a <filename>Portfile</filename> that defines an application, its
+  characteristics, and any files or special instructions required to install
+  it, so MacPorts may automatically fetch, patch, compile, and install ported
+  software.</para>
 
-  <para>MacPorts may also be used to pre-compile ported applications into
-  binaries that may be installed on remote computers. Binaries of ported
-  applications may be installed very quickly since the steps required to
-  install ports from source code have all been performed in advance. MacPorts
-  provides several major advantages over installing free and open source
-  software manually.</para>
+  <para>MacPorts may also be used to pre-compile ported software into binaries
+  that may be installed on remote computers. Binaries of ported software may
+  be installed very quickly since the steps required to install ports from
+  source code have all been performed in advance.</para>
 
+  <para>MacPorts provides several major advantages over installing free and
+  open source software manually.</para>
+
   <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
-      <para>MacPorts automatically installs a given port's required support
-      applications or libraries, known as "dependencies".</para>
+      <para>MacPorts automatically installs any required support software,
+      known as "dependencies", for a given port.</para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
       <para>MacPorts confines ported software to a private "sandbox" that
       keeps it from intermingling with your operating system and its
-      vendor-supplied libraries and prevents them from becoming
+      vendor-supplied software and prevents them from becoming
       corrupted.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -44,7 +46,8 @@
     <title>Document Conventions</title>
 
     <para>The MacPorts Guide uses some notational conventions to distinguish
-    between terminal input/output, file text, and other data types.</para>
+    between terminal input/output, file text, and other special text
+    types.</para>
 
     <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
@@ -58,7 +61,7 @@
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
-        <para>Other data types.</para>
+        <para>Other special text types.</para>
 
         <para>A hyperlink: <ulink
         url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_combustion">spontaneous

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