Docs updates and corrections

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Hi! Thanks for checking out Julia. If you have questions or problems, the [Julia
 
 ### Contributing a Julia package
 
-Julia has a built-in [package manager](https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl) based on git. A number of [packages](http:https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/packages/packagelist/) across many domains are already available for julia. Developers are encouraged to provide their libraries as a Julia package. The Julia manual provides instructions on [creating julia packages](http:https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/packages/). 
+Julia has a built-in [package manager](https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl) based on git. A number of [packages](http:https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/packages/packagelist/) across many domains are already available for Julia. Developers are encouraged to provide their libraries as a Julia package. The Julia manual provides instructions on [creating Julia packages](http:https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/packages/). 
 
 For developers who need to wrap C libraries so that they can be called from Julia, the [Clang.jl](https://github.com/ihnorton/Clang.jl) package can help generate the wrappers automatically from the C header files.
 

DISTRIBUTING.md

@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ installation. If you wish to create a distribution package such as a
 for an example of what metadata is needed for creating `.deb` packages
 for Debian and Ubuntu-based systems. Although we have not yet experimented
 with it, [Alien](https://wiki.debian.org/Alien) could be used to
-generate Julia packages for various linux distributions.
+generate Julia packages for various Linux distributions.
 
 Julia looks for git versioning information when building. If it does
 not find the git executable or the `.git/` directory is unreadable,
 the build process will continue, however all versioning information
-will be unavailable. This is the case, for instance, on canonical's
-`buildd` servers where the [Ubuntu
+will be unavailable. This is the case, for instance, on Canonical's
+build servers where the [Ubuntu
 nightlies](https://launchpad.net/~staticfloat/+archive/julianightlies)
 are built. Therefore, a workaround must be enacted, where the git
 versioning information [is encoded into the
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ By default, Julia loads `$PREFIX/etc/julia/juliarc.jl` as an
 installation-wide initialization file. This file can be used by
 distribution managers to provide paths to various binaries such as a
 bundled `git` executable (as we do on OS X), or to setup paths (as
-we do on Windows). For linux distribution packages, if `$PREFIX` is
+we do on Windows). For Linux distribution packages, if `$PREFIX` is
 set to `/usr`, there is no `/usr/etc` to look into. This requires
 the path to Julia's private `etc` directory to be changed. This can
 be done via the `SYSCONFDIR` make variable when building. Simply
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ Windows
 -------
 
 The best supported method of creating a Julia distribution on Windows
-is to cross-compile from a linux distribution such as Ubuntu. Indepth
+is to cross-compile from a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu. In-depth
 compilation instructions [are
 available](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/README.windows.md).
-However the important steps for redistrubition are to ensure to `make
+However the important steps for redistribution are to ensure to `make
 win-extras` in between `make` and `make dist`. After that process is
 completed, the `.zip` file created in the head Julia directory will
 hold a completely self-contained Julia.

LICENSE.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Julia is licensed under the MIT License:
 
-> Copyright (c) 2009-2012: Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah, 
+> Copyright (c) 2009-2013: Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah, 
 > and other contributors:
 > 
 > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/contributors
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Julia is licensed under the MIT License:
 [`repl-readline.c`](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/ui/repl-readline.c)
 is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2:
 
-> Copyright (c) 2009-2012: Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah.
+> Copyright (c) 2009-2013: Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah.
 > 
 > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

NEWS.md

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Library improvements
  to account for this increased strictness.
 
  * A redesigned and rewritten `Pkg` system is much more robust in case of problems.
- The the basic interface to adding and removing package requirements remains the
+ The basic interface to adding and removing package requirements remains the
  same, but great deal of additional functionality for developing packages in-place
  was added. See the new [packages chapter] in the manual for further details.
 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Library improvements
 
  * Change `integer_valued`, `real_valued`, and so on to `isinteger`, `isreal`,
  and so on, and semantics of the later are now value-based rather than type-based,
- unlike Matlab/Octave ([#3071]). `isbool` and `iscomplex` are eliminated in favor
+ unlike MATLAB/Octave ([#3071]). `isbool` and `iscomplex` are eliminated in favor
  of a general `iseltype` function.
 
  * Transitive comparison of floats with rationals ([#3102]).

README.windows.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Binary Downloads
 
 Download the latest version of Julia from the downloads page at http:https://julialang.org/downloads/
 
-Unzip the download to a folder. Do not attempt to run Julia without extracting the zip archive first (hint: it won't work). Double-click the file Julia.BAT to launch Julia.
+Unzip the download to a folder. Do not attempt to run Julia without extracting the zip archive first (hint: it won't work). Double-click the file `julia.bat` to launch Julia.
 
 Explore and have fun!
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Before proceeding, verify that python.exe from Python 2.7 is available in the MS
 
 If you plan to build Cairo (for graphics), you'll also need to install [CMake](http:https://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html).
 
-These sections assume you are familiar with building code. If you are not, you should stop reading now and go the the section on binaries. Regardless of which set of steps you followed above, you are now ready to compile julia. Open a unix shell by launching C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/msys.bat (or your favorite shortcut to that file). 
+These sections assume you are familiar with building code. If you are not, you should stop reading now and go to the section on binaries. Regardless of which set of steps you followed above, you are now ready to compile julia. Open a unix shell by launching C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/msys.bat (or your favorite shortcut to that file). 
 
 Run the following commands in your build directory ($HOME at C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/your_name is fine)
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Run the following commands in your build directory ($HOME at C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/h
 Running julia can be done in two ways:
 
 1. `make run-julia[-release|-debug] [DEFAULT_REPL=(basic|readline)]` (e.g. `make run-julia`)
-2. Launching the julia.bat script in usr/bin
+2. Launching the `julia.bat` script in usr/bin
 
 Cross-Compile
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