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@@ -30,23 +30,25 @@ Why do we need an ncurses replacement ?
   code:
   - extremely complicated build process with several layers of preprocessing
     using tools like awk, sed and the output of the C preprocessor with reliance
-    on implementation details, as shown by the recent breakage when distros
-    updated to GCC 5 [0].
+    on implementation details, [as shown by the recent breakage when distros
+    updated to GCC 5][0].
   - heavy use of macros, making the code hard to read.
   - very much code (bloat).
 - Usability.
   the default configuration of ncurses is usually not what one wants, and it
   features several dozens of configure options to customize the build,
   for example making it split up in several smaller libraries, with or without
   widechar support, etc.
+
   this makes it hard to guess which files to link against and which headers to
   use when building a package against ncurses.
-  -lncurses ? -lncursesw -lterminfo -ltic ? curses.h ? ncurses/ncursesw.h ?
-  this filename chaos is often fixed in a distro-specific manner [1].
+  `-lncurses`? `-lncursesw -lterminfo -ltic`? `curses.h`? `ncurses/ncursesw.h`?
+  this filename chaos [is often fixed in a distro-specific manner][1].
+
   to accomodate for this, ncurses ships its own config tool ncurses(w)5-config
   instead of a standardized pkg-config description file (disabled by default)
   to query the necessary CFLAGS and LDFLAGS.
-  unfortunately like every other homebrewn pkg-config replacement, this config
+  unfortunately like every other homebrewed pkg-config replacement, this config
   utility was designed without cross-compilation in mind, so almost any package
   using ncurses and autoconf fails to cross-compile when unpatched.
 - Size and build time.
@@ -85,14 +87,9 @@ TODO
 - installation of global terminfo db
   (rather than just a small built-in, handpicked set)
 
-References
-----------
-[0] http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18301
-[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
-
 APPENDIX A: Test Setup used for comparison in Table 1
 -----------------------------------------------------
-all test done on a dual core x86_64 sabotage linux system, with the following
+All tests were done on a dual core x86_64 sabotage linux system, with the following
 features:
 installation of shared and static libs, headers, etc,
 i.e. make -j2 all install.
@@ -110,3 +107,6 @@ netbsd curses was installed without manpages (ncurses: 1.1 MB) and terminfo
 database (ncurses: 6.4MB).
 the debug info build was created with -g3 and debuginfo stripped into external
 files via objcopy.
+
+[0]:http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18301
+[1]:https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh