improve grammer & spelling (#154)

README.md

@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@
 
 Currently, it is the unofficial LaTeX template for Master, Bachelor, Diploma, and Student Theses.
 
-See [docs/](docs/) or <http://latextemplates.github.io/scientific-thesis-template/> for a documentation of the template.
+See [docs/](docs/) or <http://latextemplates.github.io/scientific-thesis-template/> for documentation of the template.
 
 ## License
 
 The license of this work is [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), which corresponds to "public domain".
 
 ### Exceptions
 
-The images in `logos` are subject to other copyright from other parties:
+The images in `logos` are subject to other copyrights from other parties:
 
 - `UPB_LOGO_GB_RGB_15.pdf` and `UPB_Logo_RGB_D_2012.pdf` are copyright Paderborn University.
   Refer to <https://www.uni-paderborn.de/universitaet/marketing/design-vorgaben-templates/> for proper use.

config.tex

@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@
 
 % EN: Enable copy and paste of text from the PDF
 %     Only required for pdflatex. It "just works" in the case of lualatex.
-%     mmap enables mathematical symbols, but does not work with the newtx font set
+%     mmap enables mathematical symbols but does not work with the newtx font set
 %     See: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/64457/9075
 %     Other solutions outlined at http://goemonx.blogspot.de/2012/01/pdflatex-ligaturen-und-copynpaste.html and http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4397/make-ligatures-in-linux-libertine-copyable-and-searchable
-%     Trouble shooting outlined at https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/100618/9075
+%     Troubleshooting outlined at https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/100618/9075
 
 \ifluatex
 \else
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
 %     rm = libertine im Brottext, Linux Biolinum NICHT als serifenlose Schrift, sondern helvet (von oben) beibehalten
 %\usepackage[rm]{libertine}
 
-% EN: Alternative Font: Palantino. It is recommeded by Prof. Ludewig for German texts
+% EN: Alternative Font: Palantino. It is recommended by Prof. Ludewig for German texts
 % DE: Alternative Schriftart: Palantino, Packageparamter [osf] = Minuskel-Ziffern
 %     Bitte nur in deutschen Texten
 %\usepackage{mathpazo} %ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/mathpazo/ - Tipp aus DE-TEX-FAQ 8.2.1
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
 %\usepackage[scaled=0.83]{beramono}
 
 % EN: backticks (`) are rendered as such in verbatim environments.
-%     See following links for details:
+%     See the following links for details:
 %     - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/341057/9075
 %     - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/47451/9075
 %     - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/166791/9075
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
 % DE: Optischer Randausgleich und Grauwertkorrektur
 
 \usepackage[
-  babel=true, % EN: Enable language-specific kerning. Take language-settings from the languge of the current document (see Section 6 of microtype.pdf)
+  babel=true, % EN: Enable language-specific kerning. Take language-settings from the language of the current document (see Section 6 of microtype.pdf)
   expansion=alltext,
   protrusion=alltext-nott, % EN: Ensure that at listings, there is no change at the margin of the listing
   final % EN: Always enable microtype, even if in draft mode. This helps finding bad boxes quickly.
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@
 
 
 % EN: Fixes bugs in AMS math
-%     Corrently conflicts with unicode-math
+%     Currently conflicts with unicode-math
 % \usepackage{mathtools}
 
 %\numberwithin{equation}{section}
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
 \usepackage{lccaps}
 
 
-% EN: Defintion of colors. Argument "hyperref" is not used as we do not want to change border colors of links: Links are not colored anymore.
+% EN: Definition of colors. The "hyperref" argument is not used as we do not want to change the border colors of links: Links are not colored anymore.
 % DE: Farbdefinitionen
 \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
 
@@ -279,9 +279,9 @@
     \usepackage[ngerman]{selnolig}
   \fi
 \else
-  % EN: Set English as language and allow to write hyphenated"=words
+  % EN: Set English as the language and allow to write hyphenated"=words
   %     `american`, `english` and `USenglish` are synonyms for babel package (according to https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12775/babel-english-american-usenglish).
-  %      "english" has to go last to set it as default language
+  %      "english" has to go last to set it as the default language
   \usepackage[ngerman,main=english]{babel}
   % EN: Hint by http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/321066/9075 -> enable "= as dashes
   \addto\extrasenglish{\languageshorthands{ngerman}\useshorthands{"}}
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@
 
 
 % EN: For even easier quotations: \qq{text}.
-%     Is not smart in the case of nesting, but good enough for the most cases
+%     Is not smart in the case of nesting, but good enough for most cases
 \usepackage{textcmds}
 \ifdeutsch
   % EN: German quotes are different. So do not use the English quotes, but the ones provided by the csquotes package.
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
 %     Siehe https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/3034/9075.
 \usepackage[hyphens]{url}
 %
-%  EN: When activated, use text font as url font, not the monospaced one.
+%  EN: When activated, use text font as URL font, not the monospaced one.
 %      For all options see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/261435/9075.
 % \urlstyle{same}
 %
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@
 \RecustomVerbatimCommand{\VerbatimInput}{VerbatimInput}{fontsize=\footnotesize}
 %
 % EN: Hack for fancyvrb based on http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2008-12/msg00075.html
-%     Change of the solution: \Vref somehow collidated with cleveref/varioref as the output of \Vref{} was "Abschnitt 4.3 auf Seite 85"; therefore changed to \myVref -- so completely removed
+%     Change of the solution: \Vref somehow collided with cleveref/varioref as the output of \Vref{} was "Abschnitt 4.3 auf Seite 85"; therefore changed to \myVref -- so completely removed
 %     See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/132420/9075 for more information.
 \newcommand{\Vlabel}[1]{\label[line]{#1}\hypertarget{#1}{}}
 \newcommand{\lref}[1]{\hyperlink{#1}{\FancyVerbLineautorefname~\ref*{#1}}}
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@
 
 
 % EN: Required for proper environments of fancyvrb and lstlistings
-%    There is also the newfloat pacakge (recommended by minted), but we currently have no expericene with that
+%    There is also the newfloat package (recommended by minted), but we currently have no experience with that
 % DE: Wird für fancyvrb und für lstlistings verwendet
 \usepackage{float}
 %
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@
 % Abstand zwischen Fußnoten vergrößern:
 %\setlength{\footnotesep}{.85\baselineskip}
 %
-% EN: Following command disables the separting line of the footnote
+% EN: Following command disables the separating line of the footnote
 % DE: Folgendes Kommando deaktiviert die Trennlinie zur Fußnote
 %\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{}
 %
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@
 \renewcommand*\bibnamedelimc{\addnbspace}
 \renewcommand*\bibnamedelimd{\addnbspace}
 
-%Replace last "and" by comma in bibliography
+%Replace last "and" with a comma in bibliography
 %See http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/41532/9075
 \AtBeginBibliography{%
   \renewcommand*{\finalnamedelim}{\addcomma\space}%
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@
 \definecolor{black}{rgb}{0,0,0}
 
 
-% EN: Define color of links and more
+% EN: Define the color of links and more
 \hypersetup{
   % have both title and number hyperlinking to content
   linktoc=all,
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@
   \ChTitleVar{\raggedright\Large\sffamily\bfseries}
 \fi
 
-% EN: Complete different chapter style - self made
+% EN: Complete different chapter style - self-made
 
 % Innen drin kann man dann noch zwischen
 %   * serifenloser Schriftart (eingestellt)
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@
 \displaywidowpenalty = 10000
 
 
-% EN: Try to get rid of "overfull hbox" things and let text flow batter
+% EN: Try to get rid of "overfull hbox" things and let the text flow better
 %     See also
 %       - http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/f97da71d90442816/f5da290593fd647e?lnk=st&q=tolerance+emergencystretch&rnum=5&hl=de#f5da290593fd647e
 %       - http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=overfull
@@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@
 
 
 % EN: Enable footnotes in tables.
-%     This package superseeds the 1997 package "footnote"
+%     This package supersedes the 1997 package "footnote"
 \usepackage{footnotehyper}
 % TODO: The footnotehyper author recommends to enclose the respective area with \begin{savenotes} ... \end{savenotes}
 \makesavenoteenv{tabular}
@@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@
 \crefformat{footnote}{#2\footnotemark[#1]#3}
 
 
-% EN: pgfplots (optional if the ppackage is installed)
+% EN: pgfplots (optional if the package is installed)
 %     PGFPlots draws high-qual­ity func­tion plots in nor­mal or log­a­rith­mic scal­ing
 \IfFileExists{pgfplots.sty}{
   \usepackage{pgfplots}
@@ -1123,8 +1123,8 @@
 }{}
 
 
-% EN: pgfplotstable (optional if the ppackage is installed)
-%     PGFPlots generates tables from csv files
+% EN: pgfplotstable (optional if the package is installed)
+%     PGFPlots generates tables from CSV files
 \IfFileExists{pgfplotstable.sty}{
   \usepackage{pgfplotstable}
 }{}
@@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@
 }{}
 
 
-% EN: Layout: bottoms of pages not aligned to each other
+% EN: Layout: bottoms of pages not aligned with each other
 % DE: Der untere Rand darf "flattern"
 \raggedbottom
 
@@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@
 \pdfcompresslevel=9
 
 
-% EN: Required for recent version of komascript, as some packges are not that compatible with KOMAScript as they should be
+% EN: Required for a recent version of komascript, as some packages are not as compatible with KOMAScript as they should be
 %     Has to be loaded at the *very* end, so we use "\AtEndPreamble" by etoolsbox
 \usepackage{etoolbox}
 \AtEndPreamble{\usepackage{scrhack}}

latexhints-english.tex

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ \chapter{LaTeX Hints}
 In LaTeX, you can do that by using two backslashes (\textbackslash\textbackslash).
 This is rarely used.
 
-Please do \textit{not} use two backslahes for new paragraphs.
+Please do \textit{not} use two backslashes for new paragraphs.
 For instance, this sentence belongs to the same paragraph, whereas the last one started a new one.
 A long motivation for that is provided at \url{http://loopspace.mathforge.org/HowDidIDoThat/TeX/VCS/#section.3}.
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ \section{Citations}
 \end{filecontents*}
 \PrintDemo{style=parallel}
 
-The following sentence demonstrates that you can overwrite the text part of the generated label using \texttt{label} in a bibliopgrahie"=entry, but the year and the uniqueness is still generated by biber.
+The following sentence demonstrates that you can overwrite the text part of the generated label using \texttt{label} in a bibliopgrahie"=entry, but the year and the uniqueness are still generated by biber.
 
 \begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{\democodefile}
 The workflow engine Apache ODE \cite{ApacheODE} executes \BPEL processes reliably.
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ \section{Formulas and Equations}
 A list with all available mathematical symbols is provided at \url{http://texdoc.net/pkg/symbols-a4}.
 
 \begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{\democodefile}
-As example the set of natural numbers is given by $\mathbb{N}$.
+As an example, the set of natural numbers is given by $\mathbb{N}$.
 \end{filecontents*}
 \PrintDemo{style=parallel}
 
@@ -99,28 +99,28 @@ \section{Formulas and Equations}
 \end{filecontents*}
 \PrintDemo{style=parallel}
 
-Following equation is not numbered because of using \texttt{\textbackslash align*} as environment.
+The following equation is not numbered because of using \texttt{\textbackslash align*} as environment.
 \begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{\democodefile}
 \begin{align*}
   x = y
 \end{align*}
 \end{filecontents*}
 \PrintDemo{style=parallel}
 
-The template offers \verb+\abs+ to enable the bars scaling well at the absolute value:
+The template offers \verb+\abs+ to enable the bars to scale well at the absolute value:
 
 \begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{\democodefile}
 $\abs{X}$.
 \end{filecontents*}
 \PrintDemo{style=parallel}
 
-More details about mathematical environments provides the documentation available at \url{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/voss-mathmode.html}.
+The documentation available at \url{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/voss-mathmode.html} provides more details about mathematical environments.
 
 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \section{Sourcecode}
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\Cref{lst:ListingANDlstlisting} shows how to emmbed source code.
+\Cref{lst:ListingANDlstlisting} shows how to embed source code.
 With \texttt{\textbackslash lstinputlisting} the source code can be loaded directly from files.
 
 %Listing-Umgebung wurde durch \newfloat{Listing} definiert
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ \section{Pseudocode}
   \vskip.3em%\vskip\belowcaptionskip\relax
   \hrule height .5pt width\textwidth
 \end{minipage}
-%without the following line, the text is nerer at the rule
+%without the following line, the text is never at the rule
 \vskip-.3em
 %
 code goes here\\
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ \section{Figures with tikz}
     \foreach \y in {0.5,1,1.5,2,2.5,3,3.5}
     \draw(\x,\y) circle (1pt);
   \end{tikzpicture}
-  \caption{A regular grid genrated with easily with two for loops.}\label{fig:tikz_example}
+  \caption{A regular grid generated easily with two for loops.}\label{fig:tikz_example}
 \end{figure}
 
 
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ \subsection{Tables with pgfplots}
 display columns/0/.style={string type,column name={}}
 ]
 {data/data.csv}
-\caption{Table direclty generated from the values of a csf file.}
+\caption{Table directly generated from the values of a csf file.}
 \end{table}
 }{}
 
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ \section{Tables spanning multiple pages}
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \section{Abbreviations}
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-At the first pass the \gls{fr} was 5.
+At the first pass, the \gls{fr} was 5.
 At the second pass was \gls{fr} 3.
 The plural form can be seen here: \glspl{er}.
 To demonstrate what the list of abbreviations looks like for longer description texts, \glspl{rdbms} must be mentioned here.
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ \section{References}
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 For distant sections \qq{varioref} is recommended:
 \qq{See \vref{sec:mf}}.
-The command \texttt{\textbackslash{}vref} works similar to \texttt{\textbackslash{}cref} the difference beeing that a reference to the page is additionally added.
+The command \texttt{\textbackslash{}vref} works similarly to \texttt{\textbackslash{}cref} the difference being that a reference to the page is additionally added.
 \texttt{vref}: \qq{\vref{sec:firstsectioninlatexhints}}, \texttt{cref}: \qq{\cref{sec:firstsectioninlatexhints}}, \texttt{ref}: \qq{\ref{sec:firstsectioninlatexhints}}.
 
 If \qq{varioref} causes difficulties, then \qq{cref} can be used instead.
@@ -641,8 +641,8 @@ \section{Various Things}
 \label{sec:diff}
 \ifdeutsch
   Numbers (123\,654\,789) are nicely set.
-  Either in a line or as non-lining figure.
-  The latter is reached by parameter \texttt{osf} at package \texttt{libertine} or.\ \texttt{mathpazo} in \text{fonts.tex}.
+  Either in a line or as a non-lining figure.
+  The latter is reached by the parameter \texttt{osf} at package \texttt{libertine} or.\ \texttt{mathpazo} in \text{fonts.tex}.
 \fi
 
 \begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{\democodefile}
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ \section{Various Things}
 The words \qq{workflow} and \qq{dwarflike} can be copied from the PDF and pasted to a text file.
 
 \begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{\democodefile}
-In case \LuaLaTeX{} is used as compiler, there is no ligature at \qq{f\/l} in the word \qq{dwarflike} (in contrast to \qq{fl} at \qq{workflow}).
+In case \LuaLaTeX{} is used as the compiler, there is no ligature at \qq{f\/l} in the word \qq{dwarflike} (in contrast to \qq{fl} at \qq{workflow}).
 In other words: \qq{dwarflike} and \qq{dwarf\/like} look the same in the PDF.
 In case they do not, there is an issue with Lua\LaTeX{} and the selnolig package.
 \end{filecontents*}

latexhints-german.tex

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ \section{Pseudocode}
   \vskip.3em%\vskip\belowcaptionskip\relax
   \hrule height .5pt width\textwidth
 \end{minipage}
-%without the following line, the text is nerer at the rule
+%without the following line, the text is never at the rule
 \vskip-.3em
 %
 code goes here\\

main-english.tex

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 \documentclass[
   % fontsize=11pt is the standard
   a4paper,  % Standard format - only KOMAScript uses paper=a4 - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/61044/9075
-  twoside,  % we are optimizing for both screen and two-side printing. So the page numbers will jump, but the content is configured to stay in the middle (by using the geometry package)
+  twoside,  % we are optimizing for both screen and two-sided printing. So the page numbers will jump, but the content is configured to stay in the middle (by using the geometry package)
   bibliography=totoc,
   %               idxtotoc,   %Index ins Inhaltsverzeichnis
   %               liststotoc, %List of X ins Inhaltsverzeichnis, mit liststotocnumbered werden die Abbildungsverzeichnisse nummeriert
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 %tex4ht-Konvertierung verschönern
 \iftex4ht
-  % tell tex4ht to create picures also for formulas starting with '$'
+  % tell tex4ht to create pictures also for formulas starting with '$'
   % WARNING: a tex4ht run now takes forever!
   \Configure{$}{\PicMath}{\EndPicMath}{}
   %$ % <- syntax highlighting fix for emacs

main-german.tex

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   ngerman,
   % fontsize=11pt is the standard
   a4paper,  % Standard format - only KOMAScript uses paper=a4 - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/61044/9075
-  twoside,  % we are optimizing for both screen and two-side printing. So the page numbers will jump, but the content is configured to stay in the middle (by using the geometry package)
+  twoside,  % we are optimizing for both screen and two-sided printing. So the page numbers will jump, but the content is configured to stay in the middle (by using the geometry package)
   bibliography=totoc,
   %               idxtotoc,   %Index ins Inhaltsverzeichnis
   %               liststotoc, %List of X ins Inhaltsverzeichnis, mit liststotocnumbered werden die Abbildungsverzeichnisse nummeriert
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 %tex4ht-Konvertierung verschönern
 \iftex4ht
-  % tell tex4ht to create picures also for formulas starting with '$'
+  % tell tex4ht to create pictures also for formulas starting with '$'
   % WARNING: a tex4ht run now takes forever!
   \Configure{$}{\PicMath}{\EndPicMath}{}
   %$ % <- syntax highlighting fix for emacs