# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 1227886887 0 # Node ID e7072eb5c038851af9ce7b302419f8d650c604b3 # Parent cf5da10f146cdbc6af747ab099310d39dc3d3920 (Dissociated Press): Minor cleanups. diff -r cf5da10f146c -r e7072eb5c038 doc/emacs/misc.texi --- a/doc/emacs/misc.texi Fri Nov 28 15:40:38 2008 +0000 +++ b/doc/emacs/misc.texi Fri Nov 28 15:41:27 2008 +0000 @@ -2677,7 +2677,7 @@ gibberish, it insists on a certain amount of overlap between the end of one run of consecutive words or characters and the start of the next. That is, if it has just output `president' and then decides to jump -to a different point in the file, it might spot the `ent' in `pentagon' +to a different point in the buffer, it might spot the `ent' in `pentagon' and continue from there, producing `presidentagon'.@footnote{This dissociword actually appeared during the Vietnam War, when it was very appropriate. Bush has made it appropriate again.} Long sample texts @@ -2699,9 +2699,9 @@ chain based on a frequency table constructed from the sample text. It is, however, an independent, ignoriginal invention. Dissociated Press techniquitously copies several consecutive characters from the sample -between random choices, whereas a Markov chain would choose randomly -for each word or character. This makes for more plausible sounding -results, and runs faster. +text between random jumps, unlike a Markov chain which would jump +randomly after each word or character. This makes for more plausible +sounding results, and runs faster. @cindex outragedy @cindex buggestion