Improve English grammar in user-interface text. (#2075)

src/main/menu/templates/format.js

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
     label: 'F&ormat',
     submenu: [{
       id: 'strongMenuItem',
-      label: 'Strong',
+      label: 'Bold',
       type: 'checkbox',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('format.strong'),
       click (menuItem, browserWindow) {
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
       }
     }, {
       id: 'emphasisMenuItem',
-      label: 'Emphasis',
+      label: 'Italic',
       type: 'checkbox',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('format.emphasis'),
       click (menuItem, browserWindow) {
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
       type: 'separator'
     }, {
       id: 'strikeMenuItem',
-      label: 'Strike',
+      label: 'Strikethrough',
       type: 'checkbox',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('format.strike'),
       click (menuItem, browserWindow) {
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
     }, {
       type: 'separator'
     }, {
-      label: 'Clear Format',
+      label: 'Clear Formatting',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('format.clear-format'),
       click (menuItem, browserWindow) {
         actions.format(browserWindow, 'clear')

src/main/menu/templates/help.js

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export default function () {
         shell.openExternal('https://github.com/marktext/marktext/blob/master/docs/README.md')
       }
     }, {
-      label: 'Markdown syntax',
+      label: 'Markdown Reference',
       click () {
         shell.openExternal('https://github.com/marktext/marktext/blob/master/docs/MARKDOWN_SYNTAX.md')
       }
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export default function () {
         actions.showTweetDialog(win, 'twitter')
       }
     }, {
-      label: 'Report Issue or Feature request',
+      label: 'Report Issue or Request Feature',
       click () {
         shell.openExternal('https://github.com/marktext/marktext/issues')
       }
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ export default function () {
         shell.openExternal('https://github.com/marktext/marktext')
       }
     }, {
-      label: 'Follow @Jocs on Github',
+      label: 'Follow us on Github',
       click () {
         shell.openExternal('https://github.com/Jocs')
       }

src/main/menu/templates/paragraph.js

@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
       type: 'separator'
     }, {
       id: 'upgradeHeadingMenuItem',
-      label: 'Upgrade Heading',
+      label: 'Promote Heading',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('paragraph.upgrade-heading'),
       click (menuItem, browserWindow) {
         actions.paragraph(browserWindow, 'upgrade heading')
       }
     }, {
       id: 'degradeHeadingMenuItem',
-      label: 'Degrade Heading',
+      label: 'Demote Heading',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('paragraph.degrade-heading'),
       click (menuItem, browserWindow) {
         actions.paragraph(browserWindow, 'degrade heading')
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
       type: 'separator'
     }, {
       id: 'orderListMenuItem',
-      label: 'Order List',
+      label: 'Ordered List',
       type: 'checkbox',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('paragraph.order-list'),
       click (menuItem, browserWindow) {
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
       }
     }, {
       id: 'horizontalLineMenuItem',
-      label: 'Horizontal Line',
+      label: 'Horizontal Rule',
       type: 'checkbox',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('paragraph.horizontal-line'),
       click (menuItem, browserWindow) {

src/main/menu/templates/view.js

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
     }, {
       type: 'separator'
     }, {
-      label: 'Toggle Sidebar',
+      label: 'Show Sidebar',
       id: 'sideBarMenuItem',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('view.toggle-sidebar'),
       type: 'checkbox',
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
         actions.layout(item, browserWindow, 'showSideBar')
       }
     }, {
-      label: 'Toggle Tabbar',
+      label: 'Show Tab Bar',
       id: 'tabBarMenuItem',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('view.toggle-tabbar'),
       type: 'checkbox',
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
 
   if (global.MARKTEXT_DEBUG) {
     viewMenu.submenu.push({
-      label: 'Toggle Developer Tools',
+      label: 'Show Developer Tools',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('view.toggle-dev-tools'),
       click (item, focusedWindow) {
         if (focusedWindow) {

src/main/menu/templates/window.js

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export default function (keybindings) {
     }, {
       type: 'separator'
     }, {
-      label: 'Toggle Full Screen',
+      label: 'Show in Full Screen',
       accelerator: keybindings.getAccelerator('window.toggle-full-screen'),
       click (item, focusedWindow) {
         if (focusedWindow) {

src/muya/lib/ui/formatPicker/config.js

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const COMMAND_KEY = isOsx ? '⌘' : 'Ctrl'
 const icons = [
   {
     type: 'strong',
-    tooltip: 'Emphasize',
+    tooltip: 'Bold',
     shortcut: `${COMMAND_KEY}+B`,
     icon: strongIcon
   }, {
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ const icons = [
     icon: imageIcon
   }, {
     type: 'clear',
-    tooltip: 'Eliminate',
+    tooltip: 'Clear Formatting',
     shortcut: `⇧+${COMMAND_KEY}+R`,
     icon: clearIcon
   }

src/renderer/contextMenu/editor/menuItems.js

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export const COPY_AS_HTML = {
 }
 
 export const PASTE_AS_PLAIN_TEXT = {
-  label: 'Paste As Plain Text',
+  label: 'Paste as Plain Text',
   id: 'pasteAsPlainTextMenuItem',
   click (menuItem, browserWindow) {
     contextMenu.pasteAsPlainText()

src/renderer/prefComponents/editor/config.js

@@ -4,24 +4,24 @@ export const endOfLineOptions = [{
   label: 'Default',
   value: 'default'
 }, {
-  label: 'Carriage return and Line feed(CRLF)',
+  label: 'Carriage return and line feed (CRLF)',
   value: 'crlf'
 }, {
-  label: 'Line feed(Lf)',
+  label: 'Line feed (LF)',
   value: 'lf'
 }]
 
 export const trimTrailingNewlineOptions = [{
-  label: 'Trim trailing newlines',
+  label: 'Trim all trailing',
   value: 0
 }, {
-  label: 'Ensure single trailing newline',
+  label: 'Ensure exactly one trailing',
   value: 1
 }, {
-  label: 'Automatically detect',
+  label: 'Preserve style of original document',
   value: 2
 }, {
-  label: 'Disabled',
+  label: 'Do nothing',
   value: 3
 }]
 

src/renderer/prefComponents/editor/index.vue

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   <div class="pref-editor">
     <h4>Editor</h4>
     <range
-      description="The font size of text in the editor."
+      description="Font size in text editor."
       :value="fontSize"
       :min="12"
       :max="32"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('fontSize', value)"
     ></range>
     <range
-      description="The line height of editor lines."
+      description="Line height in text editor."
       :value="lineHeight"
       :min="1.2"
       :max="2.0"
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('lineHeight', value)"
     ></range>
     <font-text-box
-      description="The font used in the editor."
+      description="Font for text editor."
       :value="editorFontFamily"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('editorFontFamily', value)"
     ></font-text-box>
     <separator></separator>
     <range
-      description="The font size of text in code blocks."
+      description="Font size in code blocks."
       :value="codeFontSize"
       :min="12"
       :max="28"
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('codeFontSize', value)"
     ></range>
     <font-text-box
-      description="The font used in code blocks."
+      description="Font for code blocks."
       :onlyMonospace="true"
       :value="codeFontFamily"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('codeFontFamily', value)"
@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@
     <!-- FIXME: Disabled due to #1648. -->
     <bool
       v-show="false"
-      description="Whether to show line numbers in code blocks."
+      description="Show line numbers in code blocks."
       :bool="codeBlockLineNumbers"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('codeBlockLineNumbers', value)"
     ></bool>
     <bool
-      description="Trim any empty lines at the beginning and end of code blocks when you open a markdown file."
+      description="Remove leading and trailing empty lines in code blocks."
       :bool="trimUnnecessaryCodeBlockEmptyLines"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('trimUnnecessaryCodeBlockEmptyLines', value)"
     ></bool>
@@ -63,49 +63,49 @@
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('autoPairMarkdownSyntax', value)"
     ></bool>
     <bool
-      description="Automatically complete quotes."
+      description="Automatically close quotation marks."
       :bool="autoPairQuote"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('autoPairQuote', value)"
     ></bool>
     <separator></separator>
     <cur-select
-      description="The newline character used at the end of each line. The default option selects your operating system's default newline character."
+      description="Line separator type."
       :value="endOfLine"
       :options="endOfLineOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('endOfLine', value)"
     ></cur-select>
     <separator></separator>
     <cur-select
-      description="The default encoding for files."
+      description="Default encoding."
       :value="defaultEncoding"
       :options="defaultEncodingOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('defaultEncoding', value)"
     ></cur-select>
     <bool
-      description="Automatically guess the file's encoding when opening files."
+      description="Automatically detect file encoding."
       :bool="autoGuessEncoding"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('autoGuessEncoding', value)"
     ></bool>
     <cur-select
-      description="What to do with traling newlines."
+      description="What to do with trailing newlines."
       :value="trimTrailingNewline"
       :options="trimTrailingNewlineOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('trimTrailingNewline', value)"
     ></cur-select>
     <separator></separator>
     <cur-select
-      description="The writing direction of text."
+      description="Text direction."
       :value="textDirection"
       :options="textDirectionOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('textDirection', value)"
     ></cur-select>
     <bool
-      description="Whether to hide the hint for quickly creating paragraphs."
+      description="Hide hint for selecting type of new paragraph."
       :bool="hideQuickInsertHint"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('hideQuickInsertHint', value)"
     ></bool>
     <bool
-      description="Whether to hide the link popup when the cursor is over a link."
+      description="Hide popup when cursor is over link."
       :bool="hideLinkPopup"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('hideLinkPopup', value)"
     ></bool>
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
     ></bool>
     <separator></separator>
     <text-box
-      description="Defines the maximum editor area width. An empty string or suffixes of ch (characters), px (pixels) or % (percentage) are allowed."
+      description="Maximum width of text editor. Empty for theme default, otherwise number with unit suffix (`ch`: characters, `px`: pixels, `%`: percentage)."
       :input="editorLineWidth"
       :regexValidator="/^(?:$|[0-9]+(?:ch|px|%)$)/"
       defaultValue="Default value from current theme"

src/renderer/prefComponents/general/config.js

@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ export const titleBarStyleOptions = [{
 }]
 
 export const fileSortByOptions = [{
-  label: 'Create time',
+  label: 'Creation time',
   value: 'created'
 }, {
-  label: 'Modified time',
+  label: 'Modification time',
   value: 'modified'
 }, {
   label: 'Title',

src/renderer/prefComponents/general/index.vue

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('autoSave', value)"
     ></bool>
     <range
-      description="The delay in milliseconds between a change being made and saved."
+      description="Delay following document edit before automatically saving (milliseconds)."
       :value="autoSaveDelay"
       :min="1000"
       :max="10000"
@@ -17,40 +17,40 @@
     ></range>
     <cur-select
       v-if="!isOsx"
-      description="The style of the title bar. You need to restart Mark Text after changing."
+      description="Title bar style (requires restart)."
       :value="titleBarStyle"
       :options="titleBarStyleOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('titleBarStyle', value)"
     ></cur-select>
     <separator></separator>
     <bool
-      description="Whether to open files in a new window."
+      description="Open files in new window."
       :bool="openFilesInNewWindow"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('openFilesInNewWindow', value)"
     ></bool>
     <bool
-      description="Whether to open folders in a new window."
+      description="Open folders in new window."
       :bool="openFolderInNewWindow"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('openFolderInNewWindow', value)"
     ></bool>
     <bool
-      description="Whether to hide scrollbars."
+      description="Hide scrollbars."
       :bool="hideScrollbar"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('hideScrollbar', value)"
     ></bool>
     <bool
-      description="Whether to enable word wrap in TOC."
+      description="Wrap text in table of contents."
       :bool="wordWrapInToc"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('wordWrapInToc', value)"
     ></bool>
     <bool
-      description="Whether to enable Aidou."
+      description="Use Aidou."
       :bool="aidou"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('aidou', value)"
     ></bool>
     <separator></separator>
     <cur-select
-      description="How to sort files in opened folders."
+      description="Sort field for files in open folders."
       :value="fileSortBy"
       :options="fileSortByOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('fileSortBy', value)"
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
       </el-radio-group>
     </section>
     <cur-select
-      description="What language Mark Text is in."
+      description="Language for user interface."
       :value="language"
       :options="languageOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('language', value)"

src/renderer/prefComponents/image/index.vue

@@ -2,20 +2,20 @@
   <div class="pref-image">
     <h4>Image</h4>
     <section class="image-ctrl">
-      <div>The default behavior after insert image from local folder.
+      <div>Default action after image is inserted from local folder.
         <el-tooltip class='item' effect='dark' content='Mark Text can not get image path from paste event on Linux.' placement='top-start'>
           <i class="el-icon-info"></i>
         </el-tooltip>
       </div>
       <el-radio-group v-model="imageInsertAction">
-        <el-radio label="upload">Upload image to cloud by image uploader (you need to select one)</el-radio>
+        <el-radio label="upload">Upload to cloud using selected uploader (must be configured).</el-radio>
-        <el-radio label="folder">Move image to special folder</el-radio>
+        <el-radio label="folder">Move to designated local folder.</el-radio>
-        <el-radio label="path">Insert absolute or relative path of image</el-radio>
+        <el-radio label="path">Keep original location.</el-radio>
       </el-radio-group>
     </section>
     <separator></separator>
     <section class="image-folder">
-      <div class="description">The local image folder.</div>
+      <div class="description">Local image folder.</div>
       <div class="path">{{imageFolderPath}}</div>
       <div>
         <el-button size="mini" @click="modifyImageFolderPath">Modify</el-button>

src/renderer/prefComponents/imageUploader/index.vue

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
             <el-input v-model="github.repo" placeholder="repo" size="mini"></el-input>
           </div>
           <div class="form-group">
-            <div class="label">Branch name(optional):</div>
+            <div class="label">Branch name (optional):</div>
             <el-input v-model="github.branch" placeholder="branch" size="mini"></el-input>
           </div>
           <legal-notices-checkbox

src/renderer/prefComponents/markdown/config.js

@@ -40,22 +40,22 @@ export const tabSizeOptions = [{
 }]
 
 export const listIndentationOptions = [{
-  label: 'dfm',
+  label: 'DocFX style',
   value: 'dfm'
 }, {
-  label: 'tab',
+  label: 'True tab character',
   value: 'tab'
 }, {
-  label: '1 space',
+  label: 'Single space character',
   value: 1
 }, {
-  label: '2 spaces',
+  label: 'Two space characters',
   value: 2
 }, {
-  label: '3 spaces',
+  label: 'Three space characters',
   value: 3
 }, {
-  label: '4 spaces',
+  label: 'Four space characters',
   value: 4
 }]
 

src/renderer/prefComponents/markdown/index.vue

@@ -2,40 +2,40 @@
   <div class="pref-markdown">
     <h4>markdown</h4>
     <bool
-      description="Preferred loose list item."
+      description="Prefer loose list items."
       :bool="preferLooseListItem"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('preferLooseListItem', value)"
       more="https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#loose"
     ></bool>
     <cus-select
-      description="The preferred marker used in bullet list."
+      description="Preferred marker for bullet lists."
       :value="bulletListMarker"
       :options="bulletListMarkerOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('bulletListMarker', value)"
       more="https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#bullet-list-marker"
     ></cus-select>
     <cus-select
-      description="The preferred dilimiter used in order list."
+      description="Preferred marker for ordered lists."
       :value="orderListDelimiter"
       :options="orderListDelimiterOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('orderListDelimiter', value)"
       more="https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#ordered-list"
     ></cus-select>
     <cus-select
-      description="The preferred heading style"
+      description="Preferred heading style."
       :value="preferHeadingStyle"
       :options="preferHeadingStyleOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('preferHeadingStyle', value)"
       :disable="true"
     ></cus-select>
     <cus-select
-      description="The number of spaces a tab is equal to."
+      description="Preferred tab width."
       :value="tabSize"
       :options="tabSizeOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('tabSize', value)"
     ></cus-select>
     <cus-select
-      description="The list indentation of sub list items or paragraphs."
+      description="Preferred list indentation."
       :value="listIndentation"
       :options="listIndentationOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('listIndentation', value)"
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     <separator></separator>
     <h5>Markdown extension syntax</h5>
     <cus-select
-      description="The frontmatter type"
+      description="Format for front matter."
       :value="frontmatterType"
       :options="frontmatterTypeOptions"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('frontmatterType', value)"

src/renderer/prefComponents/sideBar/index.vue

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
         popper-class="pref-autocomplete"
         v-model="state"
         :fetch-suggestions="querySearch"
-        placeholder="Search preference..."
+        placeholder="Search preferences..."
         :trigger-on-focus="false"
         @select="handleSelect">
         <i

src/renderer/prefComponents/spellchecker/index.vue

@@ -2,33 +2,33 @@
   <div class="pref-spellchecker">
     <h4>Spelling</h4>
     <bool
-      description="Whether the (experimental) spell checker is enabled."
+      description="Enable spell checker (experimental)."
       :bool="spellcheckerEnabled"
       :onChange="handleSpellcheckerEnabled"
     ></bool>
     <separator></separator>
     <bool
-      description="Whether Hunspell is used instead of the OS spell checker on macOS and Windows 10. The change takes effect after restarting Mark Text and for new editor windows."
+      description="Use Hunspell instead of system spell checker on macOS and Windows 10 (requires restart).
       :bool="spellcheckerIsHunspell"
       :disable="!isOsSpellcheckerSupported || !spellcheckerEnabled"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('spellcheckerIsHunspell', value)"
     ></bool>
     <bool
-      description="Don't underline spelling mistakes. You can still correct spelling mistakes via the right click menu."
+      description="Hide marks for spelling errors."
       :bool="spellcheckerNoUnderline"
       :disable="!spellcheckerEnabled"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('spellcheckerNoUnderline', value)"
     ></bool>
     <bool
       v-show="isOsx && !spellcheckerIsHunspell"
-      description="Automatically identify the used language. This feature is currently unavailable when using Hunspell or if mistake underlining is disabled."
+      description="Automatically detect document language (requires showing marks for spelling errors).
       :bool="spellcheckerAutoDetectLanguage"
       :disable="!spellcheckerEnabled"
       :onChange="value => onSelectChange('spellcheckerAutoDetectLanguage', value)"
     ></bool>
     <separator></separator>
     <cur-select
-      description="The default language for the spell checker."
+      description="Default language for spell checker."
       :value="spellcheckerLanguage"
       :options="availableDictionaries"
       :disable="!spellcheckerEnabled"
@@ -38,16 +38,16 @@
       v-if="isOsx && !isHunspellSelected && spellcheckerEnabled"
       class="description"
     >
-      Please add required language dictionaries via "Language & Region" in your system preferences pane.
+      Additional languages may be added through "Language & Region" in your system preferences pane.
     </div>
     <div
       v-if="isWindows && !isHunspellSelected && spellcheckerEnabled"
       class="description"
     >
-      Please add required language dictionaries via "Language" in your "Time & language" settings. Add the langauge and download the "Basic typing" option.
+      Additional languages may be added through "Language" in your "Time & language" settings.
     </div>
     <div v-if="isHunspellSelected && spellcheckerEnabled">
-      <div class="description">List of available Hunspell dictionaries. Please add additional language dictionaries via the drop-down menu below.</div>
+      <div class="description">Installed Hunspell dictionaries.</div>
       <el-table
         :data="availableDictionaries"
         style="width: 100%">
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
         </el-table-column>
       </el-table>
 
-      <div class="description">Download new dictionaries for Hunspell.</div>
+      <div class="description">Download additional Hunspell dictionaries.</div>
       <div class="dictionary-group">
         <el-select
           v-model="selectedDictionaryToAdd"