[PATCH 1/3] user manual, some minor readability and repeats locationless GPS warn

Tim Wootton tim at tee-jay.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 30 01:04:42 PDT 2014


Some minor readability tweaks.
Repeats wanrning about co-ordinates without Location name, all the
other info on co-ordinates was cut-pasted from the manual dive
entry section, but this bit was missing.

Signed-off-by: Tim Wootton <tim at tee-jay.demon.co.uk>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 055bf7e..4f3d680 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ allowing easy identification of devices.
 ==== Updating the dive information imported from the dive computer.
 
 The information from the dive computer is not complete and more
-details must be added in order to have a more full record of the dives. To
+details must be added in order to have a fuller record of the dives. To
 do this,
 the *Dive Notes* and the *Equipment* tabs on the top left hand of the
 _Subsurface_ window should be used.
@@ -637,9 +637,9 @@ visible:
 
 image::images/AddDive3.jpg["FIGURE: The Dive Notes tab",align="center"]
 
-The *Time* field reflects the date and the time of the dive. By clicking
+The *Time* field reflects the date and time of the dive. By clicking
 the date, a calendar is displayed from which
-one can choose the correct date. Press ESC to escape from the calendar.
+one can choose the correct date. Press ESC to close the calendar.
 The time values (hour and minutes) can also be
 edited directly by clicking on each of them in the text box and by overtyping the
 information displayed.
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ information displayed.
 in these fields to the right of the Start time. Many dive computers supply water
 temperature information and this field may therefore not require further
 editing. If
-editing is required, only a value is required. The units of temperature will be
+editing is required, only a value is required, the units of temperature will be
 automatically supplied by
 _Subsurface_ (according to the _Preferences_, metric or imperial units will
 be used).
@@ -685,6 +685,12 @@ Southern hemisphere latitudes are given with a *S*, e.g. S30°, or with a
 negative value, e.g. -30.22496. Similarly, western longitudes are given with a
 *W*, e.g. W07°, or with a negative value, e.g. -7.34323.
 
+Please note that GPS coordinates of a dive site are linked to the Location
+name - so adding coordinates to dives that do not have a location description
+will cause unexpected behaviour (Subsurface will think that all of these
+dives have the same location and try to keep their GPS coordinates the
+same).
+
 *Divemaster*: The name of the dive master or dive guide for this dive should be
 entered in this field
 which offers auto completion based on the list of dive masters in
-- 
2.0.1



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