* man/ruby.1: Grammar edits for man page

  Based on a patch by Michael Endsley [Fixes Github #183]


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@37657 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/man/ruby.1 b/man/ruby.1
index cff48cd760..39bc920a70 100644
--- a/man/ruby.1
+++ b/man/ruby.1
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ ASCII-8BIT (BINARY)
 .It Fl S
 Makes Ruby use the
 .Ev PATH
-environment variable to search for script, unless if its name begins
+environment variable to search for script, unless its name begins
 with a slash.  This is used to emulate
 .Li #!
 on machines that don't support it, in the following manner:
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ Sets the default value for internal encodings
 .Pf ( Li "Encoding.default_internal" ) to UTF-8.
 .Pp
 .It Fl W Ns Op Ar level=2
-Turns on verbose mode at the specified level, without printing version
+Turns on verbose mode at the specified level without printing the version
 message at the beginning. The level can be;
 .Bl -hang -offset indent
 .It Sy 0
@@ -334,8 +334,8 @@ On some systems
 .Li "$0"
 does not always contain the full pathname, so you need the
 .Fl S
-switch to tell Ruby to search for the script if necessary.  To handle
-embedded spaces or such.  A better construct than
+switch to tell Ruby to search for the script if necessary (to handle embedded
+spaces and such).  A better construct than
 .Li "$*"
 would be
 .Li ${1+"$@"} ,
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ but it does not work if the script is being interpreted by
 .Xr csh 1 .
 .Pp
 .It Fl v
-Enables verbose mode.  Ruby will print its version at the beginning,
+Enables verbose mode.  Ruby will print its version at the beginning
 and set the variable
 .Li "$VERBOSE"
 to true.  Some methods print extra messages if this variable is true.
@@ -358,11 +358,11 @@ variable to true.
 .Pp
 .It Fl x Ns Op Ar directory
 Tells Ruby that the script is embedded in a message.  Leading garbage
-will be discarded until the first that starts with
+will be discarded until the first line that starts with
 .Dq #!
 and contains the string,
 .Dq ruby .
-Any meaningful switches on that line will applied.  The end of script
+Any meaningful switches on that line will be applied.  The end of the script
 must be specified with either
 .Li EOF ,
 .Li "^D" ( Li "control-D" ) ,
@@ -377,8 +377,8 @@ before executing script.
 DO NOT USE.
 .Pp
 Turns on compiler debug mode.  Ruby will print a bunch of internal
-state messages during compiling scripts.  You don't have to specify
-this switch, unless you are going to debug the Ruby interpreter.
+state messages during compilation.  Only specify this switch you are going to
+debug the Ruby interpreter.
 .Pp
 .It Fl -disable- Ns Ar FEATURE
 .It Fl -enable- Ns Ar FEATURE
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ disassembled instructions
 .Pp
 .El
 .Pp
-You don't have to specify this switch, unless you are going to debug the Ruby interpreter.
+Only specify this switch if you are going to debug the Ruby interpreter.
 .Pp
 .It Fl -verbose
 Enables verbose mode without printing version message at the