Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."

As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd.
So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became
baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before
in my English-mother-tongue life.

Some quick Googling turned up a reference:
<http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html>

I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but
English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used
exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g.
"the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-,
respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence
"Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and
sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker.

This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and
replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully,
grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing
"resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably
just do in the future.

The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I
don't feel privileged to correct.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
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Andrew Eikum
2012-10-16 01:03:01 +02:00
committed by Lennart Poettering
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commit 16dad32e43
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for more information on the specific unit
configuration files. The execution specific
configuration options are configured in the [Service],
[Socket], [Mount] resp. [Swap] section, depending on the unit
[Socket], [Mount], or [Swap] section, depending on the unit
type.</para>
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