spelling fixes, as seen on lintian.debian.org

README

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ directory, or unpack a created archive, cd into its top-level directory
 and follow the instructions provided in the INSTALL file found there.
 
 Alternatively, binary ready-to-install versions of the yodl program are
-available in verious Linux distributions, in particular Debian. See, e.g.,
+available in various Linux distributions, in particular Debian. See, e.g.,
 https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=yodl&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
 
 Github's web-pages for yodl are here:

yodl/CHANGES

@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ It differs from the previous (1.31) version in the following aspects:
       (texinfo), or because the format appears to be somewhat obsolete
       (sgml). 
 
-    - Added a Yodl document type `letter', indended to be used with the
+    - Added a Yodl document type `letter', intended to be used with the
       `brief.cls' LaTeX documentclass
 
     - Yodl 2.00 converts documents much faster than earlier versions.
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ It differs from the previous (1.31) version in the following aspects:
     - 2man: verb*() fixed
     - 2texinfo fixes: @top, Toplevel, \input texinfo
     - 2tely: mudela() -> @mudela
-    - 2texinfo: nicer handling of wierd nodenames ... NOT:
+    - 2texinfo: nicer handling of weird nodenames ... NOT:
       see comment in yodl2texinfo-post.py: urg
 
 
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ It differs from the previous (1.31) version in the following aspects:
     - took debian/control,copyright changes to *.in source files
 
 1.31.2.jbr2
-    -src/yodl/message.c: va_end is doesn't do much on alot of platforms,
+    -src/yodl/message.c: va_end is doesn't do much on a lot of platforms,
       but it is proper.
     -src/yodl/grampipethrough.c: Major NT hack.  The popen on NT seems to
       be leaking process slots.  With this patch I can at least build

yodl/PATCHES.txt

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ SYNCHRONISE
 
 If you're not very quick with sending your patch, there's a
 good chance that an new release of Yodl comes available.  In
-such a case (and sometimes for other unkown reasons :-), the
+such a case (and sometimes for other unknown reasons :-), the
 maintainer will probably ask you to make a new patch against
 the latest release.  Your best bet is to download the latest
 release, and apply your patch against this new source tree:

yodl/changelog

@@ -424,13 +424,13 @@ yodl (2.04)
 
   * The generic `yodl2whatever' has been given two more options to allow users
     to prevent file-collisions when the same user calls yodl to process a
-    document while another invokation of yodl by that user is still running:
+    document while another invocation of yodl by that user is still running:
 
     --tmp=<path>: By default, the temporary file is written in the /tmp
                    directory. Specify an alternate directory using 
                    --tmp = path-to-alternate-tmp-directory
     --unique-output: By default, yodl will use a temporary output file that 
-                   is rewritten at each new yodl-invokation. If that's not 
+                   is rewritten at each new yodl-invocation. If that's not 
                    what you want, specify the --unique-output flag, which
                    will use the process-id as part of the temporary output
                    file. This file is NOT removed when the yodl-conversion

yodl/macros/rawmacros/xxmlatcontext.raw

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <COMMENT>
-    Only avaiable in xml conversion mode. If at XML-context ARG it generates 
+    Only available in xml conversion mode. If at XML-context ARG it generates 
     ARG2 otherwise it generates ARG3
 <>
 <xml>

yodl/macros/rawmacros/xxsetxmldocumentheader.raw

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <COMMENT>
     Set doc header in xml: title, author, date. Call after XXstardocument().
 
-    The title is generated as a separte heading, as the title is part of the
+    The title is generated as a separate heading, as the title is part of the
 preamble. The webplatform prints the title that is mentioned in the preamble
 in the displayed page.
 

yodl/manual/yo/converters/intro.yo

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Each macro package handling a conversion from Yodl to a given output format
-has its pecularities. Although the various macro packages are very similar,
+has its peculiarities. Although the various macro packages are very similar,
 they do show some differences, due to the unique characteristics of the output
 formats. Normally, these differences should not cause difficulties in
 performing the conversion(s). In this chapter the conversion of a Yodl

yodl/manual/yo/macros/doctypes.yo

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 book) and the em(manual) page. Note that document types have nothing in common
 with output formats; a book can be converted to each of the output formats,
 and a manual page can be converted to a tt(.dvi) file. Nevertheless, some
-formats are particularly usefule for some document types. A book converted to
+formats are particularly useful for some document types. A book converted to
 the tt(man) output format to be processed later with tt(groff) won't look too
 good. Its looks would greatly improve when the document would be converted to
 ASCII using the tt(ms) output format.

yodl/manual/yo/userguide/chartables/pushingtables.yo

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ itemization(
 
     it() tt(PUSHCHARTABLE(name)) em(pushes) the currently active translation
     table onto a stack, and activates the table identified by tt(name). The
-    argument may be emtpy; in that case, the zero-translation table is
+    argument may be empty; in that case, the zero-translation table is
     activated (analogously to tt(USECHARTABLE())).
 
     it() tt(POPCHARTABLE()) activates the translation table that was last

yodl/manual/yo/userguide/counters/creating.yo

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ lists: the name of the counter and an optional value.
 The counter's value, named tt(number) below,  may be set as follows:
     itemization(
     it() If left unspecified, the counter is set to 0;
-    it() tt(number) may be a postive or negative integral value;
+    it() tt(number) may be a positive or negative integral value;
     it() tt(number) may be the name of an existing counter, in which case that
 counter's value is used.
     )

yodl/manual/yo/userguide/counters/using.yo

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Yodl has several functions to modify and/or to set the values of
 counters. The counter's value, named tt(number) below,  may be set as follows:
     itemization(
     it() If left unspecified, the counter is set to 0;
-    it() tt(number) may be a postive or negative integral value;
+    it() tt(number) may be a positive or negative integral value;
     it() tt(number) may be the name of an existing counter, in which case that
 counter's value is used.
     )

yodl/src/HIERARCHY

@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ The PUSHWSLEVEL() suppresses the consumption of ws at the end of lines by the
 lexer, so the \n argument of CHAR() is recognized (and stored) as part of the
 macro's definition. Then, the former ws level is restored again. The \ at eoln
 are used to force the lexer to consume the ws which are not part of the
-macro's defintion, but were inserted to enhance the macro's legibility. 
+macro's definition, but were inserted to enhance the macro's legibility. 
 
 The CHAR() is used to prevent character table redefinitions of \n. There's no
 cure against \n SUBST() definitions, as the lexer never sees the SUBST()

yodl/src/media/media.h

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ typedef struct Media
     char       *d_filename;     /* name of the file being processed     */
     Queue       d_queue;        /* queue of chars to process            */
     bool        d_isfile;       /* true if file media                   */
-    bool        d_fgetc;        /* true if retreived char from file     */
+    bool        d_fgetc;        /* true if retrieved char from file     */
 }
 Media;