[gnuastro-commits] master d7a7c37: Minor edits in book, acknowledgements updated

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

branch: master
commit d7a7c37dd7b6fbd9714adfdaf89862b35019f6f6
Author: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>
Commit: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>

    Minor edits in book, acknowledgements updated
    
    Some minor corrections and edits were made in the libraries section of the
    book to fix a mistake and make the text more clear to read.
    
    Also, I had forgot to thank Alfred M. Szmidt from GNU who kindly helped in
    connecting me to the GNU Webmasters and finally the GNU French Translation
    Team to make the French page accessible. I also added a "Teams" section to
    the `THANKS' file to acknowledge the help from that team.
---
 NEWS                         | 11 +++++------
 THANKS                       | 10 ++++++++++
 doc/announce-acknowledge.txt |  1 +
 doc/gnuastro.texi            | 36 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9cbbf0a..6329afb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -107,12 +107,11 @@ GNU Astronomy Utilities NEWS                          -*- 
outline -*-
 
 ** Removed features
 
-  Installation: The `--enable-bin-op-*' options that were introduced in
-  Gnuastro 0.3 have been removed. By managing the functions in a better
-  manner (a separate source file for each operator), compilation (when done
-  in parallel) takes about the same time as it took with the default (only
-  four) types before. However, Arithmetic's binary operators can now deal
-  with all ten numeric types natively.
+  Installation: The `--enable-bin-op-*' configuration options that were
+  introduced in Gnuastro 0.3 have been removed. By managing the arithmetic
+  functions in a better manner (a separate source file for each operator),
+  compilation for all types (when done in parallel) takes about the same
+  time as it took with the default (only four) types until now.
 
   MakeCatalog: `--zeropoint' option doesn't have a short option name any
   more. Previously it was `-z' which was confusing because `-x' and `-y'
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 9cafa92..fd75ff5 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -44,11 +44,21 @@ support in Gnuastro. The list is ordered alphabetically (by 
family name).
     Lee Spitler                          address@hidden
     Richard Stallman                     address@hidden
     Ole Streicher                        address@hidden
+    Alfred M. Szmidt                     address@hidden
     Ignacio Trujillo                     address@hidden
     David Valls-Gabaud                   address@hidden
     Christopher Willmer                  address@hidden
 
 
+Teams
+-----
+
+The members of the following teams also provided great help and support.
+
+    GNU French Translation Team:
+        https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www-fr
+
+
 Institutions
 ------------
 
diff --git a/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt b/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt
index 99c9aaf..64e7b42 100644
--- a/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt
+++ b/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Alan Lefor
 Alejandro Serrano Borlaff
 Lee Spitler
 Ole Streicher
+Alfred M. Szmidt
 Ignacio Trujillo
 David Valls-Gabaud
 
diff --git a/doc/gnuastro.texi b/doc/gnuastro.texi
index 6fc33a0..6b3efbe 100644
--- a/doc/gnuastro.texi
+++ b/doc/gnuastro.texi
@@ -21592,13 +21592,13 @@ of rows in the table is also put into the memory that 
@code{numrows} points
 to. The format of the table (e.g., FITS binary or ASCII table) will be put
 in @code{tableformat} (macros defined in @ref{Table input output}).
 
-Note that other than the character strings (column name, units and
-comments), nothing in the data structure(s) will be allocated by this
-function for the actual data (e.g., the @code{array} or @code{dsize}
-elements). This function is just for column information. This is a
-low-level function particular to reading tables in FITS format. It is
-recommended to use @code{gal_table_info} to be generic (see @ref{Table
-input output}).
+This function is just for column information. Therefore it only stores
+meta-data like column name, units and comments. No actual data (contents of
+the columns for example the @code{array} or @code{dsize} elements) will be
+allocated by this function. This is a low-level function particular to
+reading tables in FITS format. To be generic, it is recommended to use
address@hidden which will allow getting information from a variety
+of table formats based on the filename (see @ref{Table input output}).
 @end deftypefun
 
 @deftypefun {gal_data_t *} gal_fits_tab_read (char @code{*filename}, char 
@code{*hdu}, size_t @code{numrows}, gal_data_t @code{*colinfo}, 
gal_list_sizet_t @code{*indexll}, int @code{minmapsize})
@@ -21811,10 +21811,11 @@ also follow those conventions.
 @deffnx Macro GAL_TXT_LINESTAT_BLANK
 @deffnx Macro GAL_TXT_LINESTAT_COMMENT
 @deffnx Macro GAL_TXT_LINESTAT_DATAROW
-Status codes for lines in a plain text file that may be returned by
address@hidden). Lines which have a @key{#} character as their
+Status codes for lines in a plain text file that are returned by
address@hidden Lines which have a @key{#} character as their
 first non-white character are considered to be comments. Lines with nothing
-but white space characters are considered blank.
+but white space characters are considered blank. The remaining lines are
+considered as containing data.
 @end deffn
 
 @deftypefun int gal_txt_line_stat (char @code{*line})
@@ -21829,13 +21830,14 @@ data structures with @code{numcols} elements (one 
data structure for each
 column) see @ref{Arrays of datasets}. The total number of rows in the table
 is also put into the memory that @code{numrows} points to.
 
-Note that other than the character strings (column name, units and
-comments), nothing in the data structure(s) will be allocated by this
-function for the actual data (e.g., the @code{array} or @code{dsize}
-elements). This function is just for column information. This is a
-low-level function particular to reading tables in FITS format. It is
-recommended to use @code{gal_table_info} which will allow getting
-information from a variety of table formats (see @ref{Table input output}).
+This function is just for column information. Therefore it only stores
+meta-data like column name, units and comments. No actual data (contents of
+the columns for example the @code{array} or @code{dsize} elements) will be
+allocated by this function. This is a low-level function particular to
+reading tables in plain text format. To be generic, it is recommended to
+use @code{gal_table_info} which will allow getting information from a
+variety of table formats based on the filename (see @ref{Table input
+output}).
 @end deftypefun
 
 @deftypefun {gal_data_t *} gal_txt_table_read (char @code{*filename}, size_t 
@code{numrows}, gal_data_t @code{*colinfo}, gal_list_sizet_t @code{*indexll}, 
size_t @code{minmapsize})