From 882eabf2001cfdd9d1f00a6a8b449a4fa02ceeba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:06:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] update the credits a tad

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@1988 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
---
 Docs/En/xacc-about.html    |  8 ++--
 Docs/En/xacc-accwin.html   |  2 +-
 Docs/En/xacc-currency.html | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 Docs/En/xacc-date.html     | 23 ++++++-----
 4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Docs/En/xacc-about.html b/Docs/En/xacc-about.html
index 6bff15d8d3..228aa40d64 100644
--- a/Docs/En/xacc-about.html
+++ b/Docs/En/xacc-about.html
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 
     <hr>
     
-    GnuCash is a program to keep track of your finances.  Some 
-    of the features are:
+    GnuCash is a program to keep track of your finances.  Its 
+    features include:
     
     <ul>
       <li>Multiple accounts, which can be open at
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@
        infrastructure, is handling the whole guile/perl extension language
        thing, and is dealing with configuration &amp; configurability.
 
-    <dt>Dirk Schoenberger &lt;schoenberger@signsoft.com&gt;
-    <dd>is working on the Qt/KDE port
+    <dt>Dave Peticolas
+    <dd>did a whole lot and should write a bio here.
     </dl>
     <p>
 
diff --git a/Docs/En/xacc-accwin.html b/Docs/En/xacc-accwin.html
index b9923dbe7a..cca469ad63 100644
--- a/Docs/En/xacc-accwin.html
+++ b/Docs/En/xacc-accwin.html
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <a href="xacc-groups.html"><b>Chart of Accounts</b></a>.
     <p>
     The picure below shows an example for a stock or currency trading account.
-    Note that the Scurity field is not greyed out, and that you can 
+    Note that the Security field is not greyed out, and that you can 
     enter a value.  That value is typically a stock-ticker symbol,
     or a three-letter ISO currency code.
     <p>
diff --git a/Docs/En/xacc-currency.html b/Docs/En/xacc-currency.html
index a1b98dd40b..76a5bc7493 100644
--- a/Docs/En/xacc-currency.html
+++ b/Docs/En/xacc-currency.html
@@ -1,32 +1,55 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
 
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title></title>
+  </head>
+
+  <body>
+    <h1> Double Entry Bookkeeping</h1>
+
+    <p>A Double Entry bookkeeping system stores both values, and
+    requires that all transactions balance:</p>
+
+    <p>Double entry states that <tt> value1+value2+value3+ ... =
+    0</tt> where each value is recorded in a different account.</p>
+
+    <p> A value is</p>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>value=exch-rate*amount (for currency accounts) <i>
+      value=price*num-shares (for stocks/mutual-funds)</i></li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <p><i>Thus, buying a widget in Japan and using US Dollars to
+    pay for it would appear thus:</i></p>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>
+        <i> <b>SpendAcct:</b> (an ordinary bank/cash acct valued in
+        USD)</i> 
 <pre>
-
-
-A double entry system stores both values (and makes teh transaciton balance):
-
-double entry states that value1+value2+value3+ ... = 0
-where each value is recorded in a different account.
-A value is value=exch-rate*amount (for currency accounts)
-           value=price*num-shares (for stocks/mutual-funds)
-
-Thus, buying a widget in japan and using dollars to pay for it would appears
-like so:
-
-SpendAcct: (an oridnary bank/cash acct valued in USD)
-----------
-Date      xfer from       memo                cost
+<i>Date      xfer from       memo                cost
 1/5/99    [YenAcct]       Buy widget          $1.00
-
-
-YenAcct: (a currency trading account valued in yen)
---------
-Date      xfer from       memo                purchase   rate
-1/5/99    [SpendAcct]     Buy widget          Y150       0.00667
-
-
-The engine links together all three of these values (1.0, 150, 0.00667)
-permanently and makes it imposssible to change one without changing another,
-so that the grand total is always zero.
-
-
+</i>
 </pre>
+      </li>
+
+      <li>
+        <i> <b>YenAcct</b>: (a currency trading account valued in
+        yen)</i> 
+<pre>
+<i>Date      xfer from       memo                purchase   rate
+1/5/99    [SpendAcct]     Buy widget          Y150       0.00667
+</i>
+</pre>
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <p><i>The engine links together all three of these values (1.0,
+    150, 0.00667) permanently and makes it imposssible to change
+    one without changing another, so that the grand total is always
+    zero.</i></p>
+  </body>
+</html>
+
diff --git a/Docs/En/xacc-date.html b/Docs/En/xacc-date.html
index 2014512fdd..60eedd2aed 100644
--- a/Docs/En/xacc-date.html
+++ b/Docs/En/xacc-date.html
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
-<html>
-<body>
-<h1>Date Input</h1>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
 
-The date cell handles the following accelrator keys:
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title></title>
+  </head>
+
+  <body>
+    <h1>Date Input</h1>
+    The date cell handles the following accelerator keys: 
 <pre>
        '+':
        '=':     increment day 
@@ -32,9 +37,9 @@ The date cell handles the following accelrator keys:
        't':     today 
 
 </pre>
-
-GnuCash can be compile to understand either Eurpean style dates or American Style
-dates.   Grep for UK_DATES in dates.h
-
-</body>
+    GnuCash can be compiled to use either European style dates or
+    US Style dates. <tt>Grep</tt> for <var> UK_DATES</var> in <tt>
+    dates.h</tt>
+  </body>
 </html>
+
