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base/doc/ltnews41.tex

@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ \subsection{Supporting the \texttt{ssc} and \texttt{sw} shapes}
 \end{verbatim}
 changed unconditionally to \texttt{it} (italics) rather than to
 \texttt{sscit} (spaced small italic capitals).  Thanks to Michael
-Ummels the missing declarations have now been added so that shape
+Ummels, the missing declarations have now been added so that shape
 changes in font families that support spaced small capitals work
 properly.
 

base/ltfssaxes.dtx

@@ -1178,12 +1178,11 @@
 %  \begin{macro}{\textssc}
 %  \begin{macro}{\sscdefault}
 %    
-%    New command to select spaced small capitals. This is only here
-%    because \texttt{fontaxes} offered it. There isn't a single free
-%    font that supports it. However, some commercial ones do, so we
-%    offer it and it is possible to produce spaced small capitals from
-%    normal small capitals in OTF fonts using \texttt{otftotfm} with
-%    calls such as
+%    New commands to select spaced small capitals. There isn't a
+%    single free font that supports it. However, some commercial ones
+%    do, so we offer it. It is possible to produce spaced small
+%    capitals from normal small capitals in OTF fonts using
+%    \texttt{otftotfm} with calls such as
 %\begin{verbatim}
 %  otftotfm -e TEXMF/fonts/enc/dvips/base/texnansx.enc \
 %    SourceSerifPro-Regular.ttf -fkern -fliga --feature=smcp \
@@ -1192,10 +1191,10 @@
 %
 %    Michael Ummels kindly prepared the necessary rules for
 %    \texttt{ssc} ages ago, but until recently they managed to hide
-%    deep down in my inbox. I
-%    finally got around integrating them (with a few changes) and also
-%    took the opportunity to rationalize the other uncommon
-%    \texttt{sw} shape rules a bit.
+%    deep down in my inbox. I finally got around to integrating them
+%    (with a few changes) and I also took the opportunity to
+%    rationalize (a bit) the rules for the only other uncommon shape,
+%    \texttt{sw}.
 %    \begin{macrocode}
 \DeclareRobustCommand\sscshape
         {\not@math@alphabet\sscshape\relax
@@ -1262,10 +1261,10 @@
 %    for \texttt{ssc} we try to replace it by \texttt{sc} because we
 %    then assume that the current font family simply doesn't have any
 %    \texttt{ssc} shapes.  However, if we are already in some
-%    \texttt{ssc} shape and a change is requested we know that at
+%    \texttt{ssc} shape and a shape change is requested we know that at
 %    least some \texttt{ssc} shapes exist for the current font family,
-%    so rather than falling back to some \texttt{sc} we try to stay
-%    within \texttt{ssc} changes in a fallback situation.
+%    so rather than falling back to some \texttt{sc} shape we try to stay
+%    within \texttt{ssc} shapes in a fallback situation.
 % \changes{v1.0k}{2024/12/11}{Add \texttt{ssc} shape change
 %    rules (gh/1581)}
 %    \begin{macrocode}
@@ -1308,8 +1307,9 @@
 \DeclareFontShapeChangeRule {sc}{ulc}  {n}    {}
 %    \end{macrocode}
 %
-%    The next rule might be a bit surprising and rightly so. Correct
-%    would be that \texttt{sc} is not affected by \texttt{up}, i.e.,
+%    The next rule might be a bit surprising, and rightly so.
+%    It would be more correct if \text{sc}
+%    were not affected by \texttt{up}, so that it
 %    remains \texttt{sc} as shown in the commented out rule. However,
 %    for nearly three decades commands such as \cs{upshape} or
 %    \cs{textup} changed small caps back to the ``normal'' shape. So
@@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@
 %    \end{macrocode}
 %    The next rule assumes that if \texttt{scit} exists then
 %    \texttt{it} exists as well. If not, the mechanism will save
-%    \texttt{ulc} in \cs{f@series} which most certainly doesn't
+%    \texttt{ulc} in \cs{f@series}, which most certainly doesn't
 %    exist. So when a font is later selected that would result in a
 %    substitution (so no harm done really). Alternatively, we could in
 %    this case use \texttt{n} as alternative, which may be a bit
@@ -1480,10 +1480,10 @@
 %<latexrelease>
 %    \end{macrocode}
 %    In 2022-02-02 the \texttt{ssc} shape had no rules, so
-%    whenever it was used it would have resulted in just switching to
-%    that shape or switching away from it, so we mimic that by
-%    providing the corresponding trivial rules to overrule the ones
-%    from above.
+%    that any use of it would have resulted in just switching to
+%    that shape or switching away from it; so we mimic that by
+%    providing the corresponding trivial rules to overrule those
+%    from above when we roll back.
 %    \begin{macrocode}
 %<latexrelease>\DeclareFontShapeChangeRule {n}{ssc}   {ssc} {}
 %<latexrelease>\DeclareFontShapeChangeRule {it}{ssc}  {ssc} {}