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* Manual updates, some style improvements.

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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ simple example (a Nix expression for GNU Hello), and then moves
on to a more in-depth look at the Nix expression language.</para>
<sect1><title>A simple Nix expression</title>
<section><title>A simple Nix expression</title>
<para>This section shows how to add and test the <link
xlink:href='http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/hello.html'>GNU Hello
@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ need to do three things:
</para>
<sect2><title>The Nix expression</title>
<section><title>The Nix expression</title>
<example xml:id='ex-hello-nix'><title>Nix expression for GNU Hello
(<filename>default.nix</filename>)</title>
@ -188,10 +188,10 @@ perl = perl;</programlisting>
</para>
</sect2>
</section>
<sect2><title>The builder</title>
<section><title>The builder</title>
<example xml:id='ex-hello-builder'><title>Build script for GNU Hello
(<filename>builder.sh</filename>)</title>
@ -303,10 +303,10 @@ shell script is evaluated with Bash's <option>-e</option> option,
which causes the script to be aborted if any command fails without an
error check.</para>
</sect2>
</section>
<sect2><title>Composition</title>
<section><title>Composition</title>
<example xml:id='ex-hello-composition'><title>Composing GNU Hello
(<filename>all-packages-generic.nix</filename>)</title>
@ -401,10 +401,10 @@ some fragments of
</calloutlist>
</sect2>
</section>
<sect2><title>Testing</title>
<section><title>Testing</title>
<para>You can now try to build Hello. The simplest way to do that is
by using <command>nix-env</command>:
@ -501,10 +501,10 @@ Just pass the option <option>-j <replaceable>N</replaceable></option>,
where <replaceable>N</replaceable> is the maximum number of jobs to be
run in parallel. Typically this should be the number of CPUs.</para>
</sect2>
</section>
<sect2><title>The generic builder</title>
<section><title>The generic builder</title>
<para>Recall from <xref linkend='ex-hello-builder' /> that the builder
looked something like this:
@ -587,14 +587,14 @@ In fact, <varname>mkDerivation</varname> provides a default builder
that looks exactly like that, so it is actually possible to omit the
builder for Hello entirely.</para>
</sect2>
</section>
</sect1>
</section>
<sect1><title>The Nix expression language</title>
<section><title>The Nix expression language</title>
<para>The Nix expression language is a pure, lazy, functional
language. Purity means that operations in the language don't have
@ -1290,11 +1290,11 @@ character, or inline/multi-line, enclosed within <literal>/*
</simplesect>
</sect1>
</section>
<sect1 xml:id='sec-standard-environment'><title>The standard environment</title>
<section xml:id='sec-standard-environment'><title>The standard environment</title>
<para>The standard build environment in the Nix Packages collection
provides a basic environment for building Unix packages. It consists
@ -1547,7 +1547,7 @@ $ make
is the source itself, which resides in
<filename>pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh</filename>.</para>
</sect1>
</section>
</chapter>