fix some remaining Latex-isms that Eli found in the docs

svn: r11454

collects/scribble/scribble.css

@@ -436,6 +436,10 @@ i {
 .hspace {
 }
 
+.slant {
+  font-style: oblique;
+}
+
 .inferencetop td {
   border-bottom: 1px solid black;
   text-align: center;

collects/scribble/scribble.tex

@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@
 \newcommand{\preDoc}{\sloppy}
 \newcommand{\postDoc}{}
 
+\newcommand{\slant}[1]{{\textsl{#1}}}
+
 \newenvironment{leftindent}{\begin{quote}}{\end{quote}}
 \newenvironment{insetpara}{\begin{quote}}{\end{quote}}
 

collects/scribblings/gui/blurbs.ss

@@ -283,5 +283,8 @@ information@|details|, even if the editor currently has delayed refreshing (see
   (define (boxisfillnull which what)
     @elem{The @|which| box is filled with @|what|, unless @|which| is @scheme[#f].})
 
+  (define (slant . s)
+    (make-element "slant" (decode-content s)))
+
   )
 

collects/scribblings/gui/style-delta-class.scrbl

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ by a delta include:
 @item{changing the font size to a new value}
 @item{enlarging the font by an additive amount}
 @item{enlarging the font by a multiplicative amount, etc.}
-@item{changing the font style (normal, @italic{italic}, or {\sl slant})}
+@item{changing the font style (normal, @italic{italic}, or @slant{slant})}
 @item{toggling the font style}
-@item{changing the font to @italic{italic} if it is currently {\sl slant}, etc.}
+@item{changing the font to @italic{italic} if it is currently @slant{slant}, etc.}
 @item{changing the font weight, etc.}
 @item{changing the underline, etc.}
 @item{changing the vertical alignment, etc.}

collects/scribblings/gui/timer-class.scrbl

@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ The timer's alarm expires after @scheme[msec] milliseconds, at which
 point @method[timer% notify] is called (on an event boundary). If
 @scheme[just-once?] is @scheme[#f], the timer expires @italic{every}
 @scheme[msec] milliseconds until the timer is explicitly
-stopped;\footnote{More precisely, the timer expires @scheme[msec]
-milliseconds after @method[timer% notify] returns each time}
-otherwise, the timer expires only once.
+stopped. (More precisely, the timer expires @scheme[msec]
+milliseconds after @method[timer% notify] returns each time.)
+Otherwise, the timer expires only once.
 
 }
 

collects/scribblings/gui/window-intf.scrbl

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Returns the window's cursor, or @scheme[#f] if this window's cursor
            exact-integer?]{
 
 Returns an exact integer representing a handle to the window in the
-current platform's GUI toolbox. Cast this number from a C \cpp{long}
+current platform's GUI toolbox. Cast this number from a C @tt{long}
 to a platform-specific C type:
 
 @itemize{
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Gets a window's label, if any. Control windows generally display their
  label can be an icon symbol @scheme['app], @scheme['caution], or
  @scheme['stop].
 
-The label string may contain ampersands (@litchar{&}), which serve as
+The label string may contain @litchar{&}s, which serve as
  keyboard navigation annotations for controls under Windows and X. The
  ampersands are not part of the displayed label of a control; instead,
  ampersands are removed in the displayed label (under all platforms),

collects/scribblings/inside/threads.scrbl

@@ -230,9 +230,9 @@ request on the blocking file descriptors through
 @cpp{scheme_wakeup_on_input}.
 
 A @cpp{scheme_wakeup_on_input} procedure takes a pointer to an array
-of three @cpp{fd_set}s (sortof\footnote{To ensure maximum portability,
-use @cpp{MZ_FD_XXX} instead of @cpp{FD_XXX}.}) and returns
-@cpp{void}. The @cpp{scheme_wakeup_on_input} does not sleep; it just
+of three @cpp{fd_set}s (use @cpp{MZ_FD_SET} instead of @cpp{FD_SET}, etc.)
+and returns @cpp{void}. The @cpp{scheme_wakeup_on_input}
+function does not sleep immediately; it just
 sets up callbacks on the specified file descriptors.  When input is
 ready on any of those file descriptors, the callbacks are removed and
 @cpp{scheme_wake_up} is called.
@@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ if the @cpp{float} argument is zero.
 The second argument to @cpp{scheme_sleep} is conceptually an array of
 three @cpp{fd_set} records, but always use @cpp{scheme_get_fdset} to
 get anything other than the zeroth element of this array, and
-manipulate each ``@cpp{fd_set}'' with @cpp{MZ_FD_XXX} instead of
-@cpp{FD_XXX}.
+manipulate each ``@cpp{fd_set}'' with @cpp{MZ_FD_SET},
+@cpp{MZ_FD_CLR}, @|etc| instead of @cpp{FD_SET}, @cpp{FD_CLR}, etc.
 
 The following function @cpp{mzsleep} is an appropriate
 @cpp{scheme_sleep} function for most any Unix or Windows application.
@@ -494,8 +494,8 @@ If Scheme decides to sleep, then the @var{fdf} function is called to
  sets bits in @var{fds}, conceptually an array of three
  @cpp{fd_set}s: one or reading, one for writing, and one for
  exceptions. Use @cpp{scheme_get_fdset} to get elements of this
- array, and manipulate an ``@cpp{fd_set}'' with @cpp{MZ_FD_XXX}
- instead of @cpp{FD_XXX}. Under Windows, an ``@cpp{fd_set}'' can
+ array, and manipulate an ``@cpp{fd_set}'' with @cpp{MZ_FD_SET}
+ instead of @cpp{FD_SET}, etc. Under Windows, an ``@cpp{fd_set}'' can
  also accommodate OS-level semaphores or other handles via
  @cpp{scheme_add_fd_handle}.
 

collects/scribblings/reference/bytes.scrbl

@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ string.
  Produces a string by decoding the @scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring
  of @scheme[bstr] as a Latin-1 encoding of Unicode code points; i.e.,
  each byte is translated directly to a character using
- @scheme[integer->char], so the decoding always succeeds. (See also the
- Latin-1 footnote of @secref["encodings"].)  The @scheme[err-char]
+ @scheme[integer->char], so the decoding always succeeds.
+ The @scheme[err-char]
  argument is ignored, but present for consistency with the other
  operations.}
 
@@ -271,8 +271,8 @@ string.
  of @scheme[str] using Latin-1; i.e., each character is translated
  directly to a byte using @scheme[char->integer]. If @scheme[err-byte] is
  not @scheme[#f], it is used for each character in @scheme[str] whose
- value is greater than @scheme[255]. (See also the Latin-1 footnote of
- @secref["encodings"]. If @scheme[err-byte] is @scheme[#f], and if the
+ value is greater than @scheme[255].
+ If @scheme[err-byte] is @scheme[#f], and if the
  @scheme[start] to @scheme[end] substring of @scheme[str] has a character
  with a value greater than @scheme[255], then the
  @exnraise[exn:fail:contract].}

collects/scribblings/reference/custom-ports.scrbl

@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ The arguments implement the port as follows:
           [done-evt (caddr r)]
           [ch (cadddr r)]
           [nack (cddddr r)])
-      ;; Note: we don't check that k is $\leq$ the sum of
+      ;; Note: we don't check that k is @scheme[<=] the sum of
       ;;  previous peeks, because the entire stream is actually
       ;;  known, but we could send an exception in that case.
       (choice-evt

collects/scribblings/reference/paths.scrbl

@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ of @|AllUnix| paths, and see @secref["windowspaths"] for more
 information on the construction of Windows paths.
 
 The following examples assume that the current directory is
-\File{/home/joeuser} for Unix examples and \File{C:\Joe's Files} for
+@filepath{/home/joeuser} for Unix examples and @filepath{C:\Joe's Files} for
 Windows examples.
 
 @schemeblock[