Correction of some spelling/grammatical errors and miscellany in man pages

doc/sane-cardscan.man

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ used by the backend:
 .PP
 "lines_per_block 16" (or other number from 1 to 32)
 .RS
-Controls the number of lines of image data which will be aquired in each pass.
+Controls the number of lines of image data which will be acquired in each pass.
 Older scanners will require this number set lower, often 1.
 .RE
 .PP

doc/sane-coolscan.man

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ permissions of that device, have a look at sane\-scsi.
 
 Some SCSI-adapters and low-level SCSI drivers do not work correctly with this backend and the
 Coolscan scanners. These systems hang when the autofocus command is send to the Scanner.
-To see a list of which card/driver combinations work or dont work have a look at:
+To see a list of which card/driver combinations work or don't work have a look at:
 http://andreas.rick.free.fr/sane/autofocus.html.
 
 

doc/sane-epson.man

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ are "None", "Halftone A (Hard Tone)", "Halftone B (Soft Tone)", "Halftone C
 
 The 
 .I \-\-dropout
-switch selects the so called dropout color. Vald options are None,
+switch selects the so called dropout color. Valid options are None,
 Red, Green and Blue. The default is None. The dropout color is used for
 monochrome scanning and selects the color that is not scanned. This can
 be used to e.g. scan an original with a colored background.
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ environment variable controls the SCSI related debug level for this backend.
 Only a value of 2 is supported.
 .TP
 .B SANE_EPSON_CMD_LVL
-This allows to override the function or command level that the backend 
+This allows one to override the function or command level that the backend
 uses to communicate with the scanner. The function level a scanner
 supports is determined during the initialization of the device. If
 the backend does not recognize the function level reported by the 

doc/sane-epson2.man

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ are "None", "Halftone A (Hard Tone)", "Halftone B (Soft Tone)", "Halftone C
 
 The 
 .I \-\-dropout
-switch selects the so called dropout color. Vald options are None,
+switch selects the so called dropout color. Valid options are None,
 Red, Green and Blue. The default is None. The dropout color is used for
 monochrome scanning and selects the color that is not scanned. This can
 be used to e.g. scan an original with a colored background.
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ backend.  E.g., a value of 128 requests all debug output to be printed.
 Smaller levels reduce verbosity.
 .TP
 .B SANE_EPSON2_CMD_LVL
-This allows to override the function or command level that the backend 
+This allows one to override the function or command level that the backend
 uses to communicate with the scanner. The function level a scanner
 supports is determined during the initialization of the device. If
 the backend does not recognize the function level reported by the 

doc/sane-genesys.man

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ GL841, GL843, GL847 or GL124 chipset, you can try to add it to the backend.
 .SH "CALIBRATION"
 To give correct image quality, sheet fed scanners need to be calibrated using the
 calibration sheet sold with the scanner. To do calibration, you must insert this target
-in the feeder then start calibration either by passing the --calibrate option to scanimage
+in the feeder then start calibration either by passing the \-\-calibrate option to scanimage
 or by clicking on the available 'calibrate' button in the 'advanced options' in a graphical
 frontend. The result of the calibration is stored in a file in the home directory of the user doing it.
 If you plug the scanner in another machine or use it with another account, calibration
@@ -75,13 +75,13 @@ whith brightness below that value will be scanned as black.
 
 .B \-\-brightness value
 .RS
-	-100..100 (in steps of 1). Set the brightness enhancement. 0 for no enhancement, negative
+	\-100..100 (in steps of 1). Set the brightness enhancement. 0 for no enhancement, negative
 values to decrease brigthness, and positive values to increase it.
 .RE
 
 .B \-\-contrast value
 .RS
-	-100..100 (in steps of 1). Set the contrast enhancement. 0 for no enhancement, negative
+	\-100..100 (in steps of 1). Set the contrast enhancement. 0 for no enhancement, negative
 values to decrease contrast, and positive values to increase it.
 .RE
 
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Alexey Osipov <simba@lerlan.ru> for HP2400 final support
 Powersaving isn't implemented for gl646 based scanner. Dynamic (emulated from gray data and with dithering) isn't enabled for gl646 scanners. Hardware lineart is limited up to 600 dpi for gl847 based scanners, due to the way image sensors are built.
 .br
 .TP
-This backend will be much slower if not using libusb-1.0. So be sure that sane-backends is built with the --enable-libusb_1_0 option.
+This backend will be much slower if not using libusb\-1.0. So be sure that sane\-backends is built with the \-\-enable-libusb_1_0 option.
 .br
 
 .SH "BUGS"

doc/sane-gt68xx.man

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ can set the "correct" name here.
 .PP
 The
 .B afe
-option allows to set custom offset and gain values for the Analog FrontEnd of
+option allows one to set custom offset and gain values for the Analog FrontEnd of
 the scanner. This option can be either used to select the AFE values if
 automatic coarse calibration is disabled, or to make automatic coarse
 calibration faster. For the latter usage, enable debug level 3 (see below),

doc/sane-kodakaio.man

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH sane\-kodakaio 2.4 "17 Jun 2012" "@PACKAGEVERSION@" "SANE Scanner Access Now Easy"
+.TH sane\-kodakaio 5 "17 Jun 2012" "@PACKAGEVERSION@" "SANE Scanner Access Now Easy"
 .IX sane\-kodakaio
 
 .SH NAME

doc/sane-pixma.man

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ provides the following
 \#.B experimental
 options for button handling, i.e. the options might change in the future.
 .br
-The button status can be polled i.e. with 'scanimage -A'.
+The button status can be polled i.e. with 'scanimage \-A'.
 .br
 Button scan is disabled on MAC OS X due to darwin libusb not handling
 timeouts in usb interrupt reads, but may work when using the network protocol.

doc/sane-scsi.man

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ for Epson scanners,
 for HP scanners, etc.).
 .PP
 For some operating systems (e.g. Linux and OS/2), there is an alternate way of
-specifying scanner devices.  This alternate way allows to identify scanners by
+specifying scanner devices.  This alternate way allows one to identify scanners by
 the SCSI vendor and model string and/or by the SCSI device address (consisting
 of bus number, channel number, id, and logical unit number).  The syntax for
 specifying a scanner in this way is:

doc/sane-test.man

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Setting option
 .B hand\-scanner
 results in the test-backend behaving like a hand-scanner.  Hand-scanners do
 not know the image height a priori.  Instead, they return a height of \-1.
-Setting this option allows to test whether a frontend can handle this
+Setting this option allows one to test whether a frontend can handle this
 correctly.  This option also enables a fixed width of 11 cm.
 .PP
 Setting option
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ ADF will be "empty".
 .SH SPECIAL OPTIONS
 Option
 .B test\-picture
-allows to set the image that's returned to the frontend.  While "Solid white"
+allows one to set the image that's returned to the frontend.  While "Solid white"
 and "Solid black" are quite obvious, the other options need some more
 explanation.  Color patterns are used to determine if all modes and their
 colors are represented correctly by the frontend.  The grid should look like the
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ same in every mode and resolution.  A table of all the test pictures can be
 found at: http://www.meier\-geinitz.de/sane/test\-backend/test\-pictures.html.
 .PP
 If option
-.B invert\-endianess
+.B invert\-endianness
 is set, the upper and lower bytes of image data in 16 bit modes are exchanged.
 This option can be used to test the 16 bit modes of frontends, e.g. if the
-frontend uses the correct endianess.
+frontend uses the correct endianness.
 .PP
 If option
 .B read\-limit

doc/sane-umax_pp.man

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ needs to run as root. To allow user access to the scanner
 run the backend through the network interface (See saned(8) and sane\-net(5)).
 A more relaxed solution (security wise) is to add suid bit to the frontend
 (See chmod(1)).
-The backend drop root priviledges as soon as it can, right after gaining direct
+The backend drop root privileges as soon as it can, right after gaining direct
 access to IO ports, which lessen risks when being root.
 
 .SH "DEVICE NAMES"
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ root (*BSD and linux), or with 'IOPL=yes' on
 OS/2
 .PP 
 .RE
-\fBNOTE:\fR in all cases, you must have sufficient priviledges
+\fBNOTE:\fR in all cases, you must have sufficient privileges
 to get access to the chosen device or address. Depending on the
 security settings, devices may not be available for all users.
 You have to change permissions on the dev/ppi* or /dev/parport* devices. 

doc/sane-usb.man

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ can be found on the SANE webpage
 and the individual backend manpages.
 .PP
 Most backends can detect USB scanners automatically using "usb" configuration
-file lines. This method allows to identify scanners by the USB vendor and
+file lines. This method allows one to identify scanners by the USB vendor and
 product numbers.  The syntax for specifying a scanner this way is:
 .PP
 .RS

doc/sane.man

@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ for details.
 .TP
 .B plustek
 The SANE plustek backend supports USB flatbed scanners that use the National
-Semiconductor LM983[1/2/3]-chipset aka Merlin. Scanners using this LM983x chips
+Semiconductor LM983[1/2/3] chipset aka Merlin. Scanners using this LM983x chips
 include some models from Plustek, KYE/Genius, Hewlett-Packard, Mustek, Umax,
 Epson, and Canon. See
 .BR sane\-plustek (5)