* gpg.sgml: Some minor language cleanup.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 1b458726c..cbf77d15b 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-09-20  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
+
+	* gpg.sgml: Some minor language cleanup.
+
 2002-09-20  Werner Koch  <wk@gnupg.org>
 
 	* DETAILS: s/XORed/ORed/.
diff --git a/doc/gpg.sgml b/doc/gpg.sgml
index 9ef3d20f8..11f1f949d 100644
--- a/doc/gpg.sgml
+++ b/doc/gpg.sgml
@@ -311,10 +311,10 @@ non-exportable.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
     <varlistentry>
     <term>revsig</term>
     <listitem><para>
-Revoke a signature.  GnuPG asks for every
-signature which has been done by one of
-the secret keys, whether a revocation
-certificate should be generated.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
+Revoke a signature.  For every signature which has been generated by
+one of the secret keys, GnuPG asks whether a revocation certificate
+should be generated.
+</para></listitem></varlistentry>
     <varlistentry>
     <term>trust</term>
     <listitem><para>
@@ -360,10 +360,10 @@ Revoke a subkey.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
     <varlistentry>
     <term>expire</term>
     <listitem><para>
-Change the key expiration time.  If a key is
-selected, the time of this key will be changed.
-With no selection the key expiration of the
-primary key is changed.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
+Change the key expiration time.  If a subkey is selected, the
+expiration time of this subkey will be changed.  With no selection,
+the key expiration of the primary key is changed.
+</para></listitem></varlistentry>
     <varlistentry>
     <term>passwd</term>
     <listitem><para>
@@ -649,9 +649,9 @@ values will be overwritten.
 <varlistentry>
 <term>--rebuild-keydb-caches</term>
 <listitem><para>
-When updateing form version 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 this command should be used
-to create signature caches in the keyring.  It might be handy in
-other situations too.
+When updating from version 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 this command should be used
+to create signature caches in the keyring.  It might be handy in other
+situations too.
 </para></listitem></varlistentry>
 
 <varlistentry>
@@ -1267,10 +1267,10 @@ Using this option will also prevent the creation of a
 <varlistentry>
 <term>--load-extension &ParmName;</term>
 <listitem><para>
-Load an extension module. If &ParmName; does not
-contain a slash it is searched in "/usr/local/lib/gnupg"
-Extension are in gernal not useful anymore; the use of this 
-option is deprecated.
+Load an extension module. If &ParmName; does not contain a slash it is
+searched for in the directory configured when GnuPG was built
+(generally "/usr/local/lib/gnupg").  Extensions are not generally
+useful anymore, and the use of this option is deprecated.
 </para></listitem></varlistentry>
 
 
@@ -2344,7 +2344,7 @@ The first is the path to the Unix Domain Socket, the second the PID of
 the gpg-agent and the protocol version which should be set to 1.  When
 starting the gpg-agent as described in its documentation, this
 variable is set to the correct value.  The option --gpg-agent-info can
-be used to overide it.</para></listitem>
+be used to override it.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
 <term>http_proxy</term>
@@ -2436,7 +2436,7 @@ is *very* easy to spy out your passphrase!
 <para>
 If you are going to verify detached signatures, make sure that the
 program knows about it; either be giving both filenames on the
-commandline or using <literal>-</literal> to specify stdin.
+command line or using <literal>-</literal> to specify stdin.
 </para>
 </refsect1>