--- intro.texi.~1.13.~	2002-10-14 22:47:40.000000000 +0100
+++ intro.texi	2003-11-17 22:39:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
 @ifnottex
 Revised^5
 @end ifnottex
-Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (usually known as R5RS),
+Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (usually known as @acronym{R5RS}),
 providing clean and general data and control structures.  Guile goes
-beyond the rather austere language presented in R5RS, extending it with
-a module system, full access to POSIX system calls, networking support,
+beyond the rather austere language presented in @acronym{R5RS}, extending it with
+a module system, full access to @acronym{POSIX} system calls, networking support,
 multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function call interface,
 powerful string processing, and many other features needed for
 programming in the real world.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 interpreter, reading and executing Scheme code from a file.  However,
 Guile is also packaged as an object library, allowing other applications
 to easily incorporate a complete Scheme interpreter.  An application can
-use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration
+then use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration
 language, or as multi-purpose ``glue'', connecting primitives provided
 by the application.  It is easy to call Scheme code from C code and vice
 versa, giving the application designer full control of how and when to
@@ -39,8 +39,33 @@
 either static or dynamic linking to incorporate compiled code.  Modules
 also encourage developers to package up useful collections of routines
 for general distribution; as of this writing, one can find Emacs
-interfaces, database access routines, compilers, GUI toolkit interfaces,
-and HTTP client functions, among others.
+interfaces, database access routines, compilers, @acronym{GUI} toolkit interfaces,
+and @acronym{HTTP} client functions, among others, packaged as Guile modules.
+
+You could call Guile all these things added together:
+
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+standard Scheme (@acronym{R5RS})
+
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+extensions to @acronym{R5RS} offered by @acronym{SCM}
+
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+some extra primitives offered by Guile (e.g.@: @code{catch}/@code{throw})
+
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+embeddable Scheme interpreter library (libguile)
+
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+multiple threads
+
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+
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+Regular expression library (rx)
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 In the future, we hope to expand Guile to support other languages like
 Tcl and Perl by translating them to Scheme code.  This means that users