future: Fix some typos that Mom found

diff --git a/src/future/hardware.tex b/src/future/hardware.tex
index ef8214731a018479b05b9336c76f9cf96af68495..36dce71b770d3e7c43140a929b8296607fd3ff23 100644 (file)
--- a/src/future/hardware.tex
+++ b/src/future/hardware.tex
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ MultiMode\citep{multimode} gets the job done, some hardware upgrades
 would allow futher automation, increasing throughput through longer
 run times.
 
-MultiModes measure the position of the cantilever my monitoring the
+MultiModes measure the position of the cantilever by monitoring the
 reflected laser with a four-segment photodiode.  While the vertical
 and horizontal signals are accessible in the cable connecting the
 MultiMode to its controlling NanoScope, the total photodiode signal is

diff --git a/src/future/overview.tex b/src/future/overview.tex
index e4da9ee70dcfe5e7e8ea6fa67bf4be183b4dc1fc..36e7b5f1204136788a28b002def40bc1b44147c9 100644 (file)
--- a/src/future/overview.tex
+++ b/src/future/overview.tex
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Single molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) provides an experimental
-window the mechanics and kinetics of individual molecules and domains.
-Single molecule measurements extend bulk measurements, by offering
-insight into the variations within a population of molecules in
-addition to insight into the aggregate behavior of bulk solutions.
+window on the mechanics and kinetics of individual molecules and
+domains.  Single molecule measurements extend bulk measurements, by
+offering insight into the variations within a population of molecules
+in addition to insight into the aggregate behavior of bulk solutions.
 They also bridge the gap between chemists experimenting at the bulk
 level and theorists simulating at the amino-acid level.  By providing
 data for comparison, SMFS lays the ground work for improving and

diff --git a/src/future/software.tex b/src/future/software.tex
index 2c482457ca654df0f058c6730197d34fbfcac113..a48f457787589bf65b5050d389d4318604a77316 100644 (file)
--- a/src/future/software.tex
+++ b/src/future/software.tex
@@ -3,21 +3,21 @@
 
 Open source experiment control is possible!  Even for a small lab,
 with a single novice developer\footnote{
-  I started this project a bit of LabVIEW and Matlab experience, but
-  only a few days of Python from the physics department's ``Welcome to
-  Drexel'' boot camp.  I stumbled across version control on my own,
-  after a year of maintaining a directory full of version-stampted
-  tarballs.
-
-}, building reasonable software on top of existing pieces is possible.
+  I started this project with a bit of LabVIEW and Matlab experience,
+  but only a few days of Python from the physics department's
+  ``Welcome to Drexel'' boot camp.  I stumbled across version control
+  on my own, after a year of maintaining a directory full of
+  version-stampted tarballs.
+},
+building reasonable software on top of existing pieces is possible.
 After a significant investment in developing
 \sawsim\ (\cref{sec:sawsim}), the \pyafm\ stack
 (\cref{sec:pyafm,sec:calibcant}), and \Hooke\ (\cref{sec:hooke}), we
 have a complete experiment control and analysis suite for single
 molecule force spectroscopy.  All of the software in the
-stack---including the existing libraries and systems layers that I've
-built on---is open source, so other labs are free to use, improve, and
-republish it as they see fit.
+stack---including the existing libraries and systems layer
+dependencies---is open source, so other labs are free to use, improve,
+and republish it as they see fit.
 
 As the body of existing science increases, new researchers must become
 at the same time more specialized and more interdisciplinary than
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ journal article.  For example, resolving the confusion about the
 generating their figure.  Do you think I'm not calibrating my
 cantilevers correctly?  Feel free to dig through my code.  Let me know
 if you find something wrong (or fix it and send me a patch!).  Science
-is built on reproducible experiments and analysis, and open sourcce
+is built on reproducible experiments and analysis, and open source
 software allows you to explicitly specify your methods.  With well
-organized code, the specification should be clear from a high-level,
+organized code, the specification should be clear from high-level,
 experiment-design choices down through low-level bit manipulation.
 
 Many researchers have not received formal training in software
@@ -71,4 +71,4 @@ version control should only take a few days\footnote{
 tool or workflow, but learning that it exists at all.  There are a
 number of papers highlighting best practices and tools that are good
 surveys for guiding future
-learing\citep{wilson06a,wilson06b,vandewalle09,aruliah12}.
+learning\citep{wilson06a,wilson06b,vandewalle09,aruliah12}.