Docs: Tips touchup

book/en/src/by-example/tips_destructureing.md

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # Resource de-structure-ing
 
-When having a task taking multiple resources it can help in readability to split
-up the resource struct. Here are two examples on how this can be done:
+Destructuring task resources might help readability if a task takes multiple
+resources.
+Here are two examples on how to split up the resource struct:
 
 ``` rust
 {{#include ../../../../examples/destructure.rs}}

book/en/src/by-example/tips_from_ram.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ RTIC v0.4.0 was to allow inter-operation with other attributes. For example, the
 improve performance in some cases.
 
 > **IMPORTANT**: In general, the `link_section`, `export_name` and `no_mangle`
-> attributes are very powerful but also easy to misuse. Incorrectly using any of
+> attributes are powerful but also easy to misuse. Incorrectly using any of
 > these attributes can cause undefined behavior; you should always prefer to use
 > safe, higher level attributes around them like `cortex-m-rt`'s `interrupt` and
 > `exception` attributes.
@@ -42,4 +42,3 @@ $ cargo nm --example ramfunc --release | grep ' foo::'
 $ cargo nm --example ramfunc --release | grep ' bar::'
 {{#include ../../../../ci/expected/ramfunc.grep.bar}}
 ```
-

book/en/src/by-example/tips_indirection.md

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 Message passing always involves copying the payload from the sender into a
 static variable and then from the static variable into the receiver. Thus
 sending a large buffer, like a `[u8; 128]`, as a message involves two expensive
-`memcpy`s. To minimize the message passing overhead one can use indirection:
+`memcpy`s.
+
+Indirection can minimize message passing overhead:
 instead of sending the buffer by value, one can send an owning pointer into the
 buffer.
 
@@ -23,4 +25,3 @@ Here's an example where `heapless::Pool` is used to "box" buffers of 128 bytes.
 $ cargo run --target thumbv7m-none-eabi --example pool
 {{#include ../../../../ci/expected/pool.run}}
 ```
-

book/en/src/by-example/tips_monotonic_impl.md

@@ -1,18 +1,21 @@
 # Implementing a `Monotonic` timer for scheduling
 
-The framework is very flexible in that it can utilize any timer which has compare-match and (optional)
-overflow interrupts for scheduling. The only thing needed to make a timer usable with RTIC is to
-implement the [`rtic_monotonic::Monotonic`] trait.
+The framework is flexible because it can use any timer which has compare-match and optionally
+supporting overflow interrupts for scheduling.
+The single requirement to make a timer usable with RTIC is implementing the
+[`rtic_monotonic::Monotonic`] trait.
 
-Implementing time that supports a vast range is generally **very** difficult, and in RTIC 0.5 it was a
-common problem how to implement time handling and not get stuck in weird special cases. Moreover
-it was difficult to understand the relation between time and the timers used for scheduling. For
-RTIC 0.6 we have moved to assume the user has a time library, e.g. [`fugit`] or [`embedded_time`],
-as the basis for all time-based operations when implementing `Monotonic`. This is why in RTIC 0.6
-it is almost trivial to implement the `Monotonic` trait and use any timer in a system for scheduling.
+Implementing time counting that supports large time spans is generally **difficult**, in RTIC 0.5
+implementing time handling was a common problem.
+Moreover, the relation between time and timers used for scheduling was difficult to understand.
 
-The trait documents the requirements for each method, however below you can find a list of
-implementations in the wild that can be used as inspiration:
+For RTIC 0.6 we have moved to assume the user has a time library, e.g. [`fugit`] or [`embedded_time`],
+as the basis for all time-based operations when implementing `Monotonic`.
+This makes it almost trivial to implement the `Monotonic` trait allowing the use of any timer in
+the system for scheduling.
+
+The trait documents the requirements for each method,
+and for inspiration here is a list of `Monotonic` implementations:
 
 - [`STM32F411 series`], implemented for the 32-bit timers
 - [`Nordic nRF52 series`], implemented for the 32-bit timers
@@ -28,4 +31,3 @@ If you know of more implementations feel free to add them to this list.
 [`Nordic nRF52 series`]: https://github.com/kalkyl/nrf-play/blob/main/src/bin/mono.rs
 [`Systick based`]: https://github.com/rtic-rs/systick-monotonic
 [`DWT and Systick based`]: https://github.com/rtic-rs/dwt-systick-monotonic
-

book/en/src/by-example/tips_static_lifetimes.md

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 # 'static super-powers
 
-As discussed earlier `local` resources are given `'static` lifetime in `#[init]` and `#[idle]`,
-this can be used to allocate an object and then split it up or give the pre-allocated object to a
-task, driver or some other object.
-This is very useful when needing to allocate memory for drivers, such as USB drivers, and using
-data structures that can be split such as [`heapless::spsc::Queue`].
+In `#[init]` and `#[idle]` `local` resources has `'static` lifetime.
 
-In the following example an [`heapless::spsc::Queue`] is given to two different tasks for lock-free access
-to the shared queue.
+Useful when pre-allocating and/or splitting resources between tasks, drivers
+or some other object.
+This comes in handy when drivers, such as USB drivers, need to allocate memory and
+when using splittable data structures such as [`heapless::spsc::Queue`].
+
+In the following example two different tasks share a [`heapless::spsc::Queue`]
+for lock-free access to the shared queue.
 
 [`heapless::spsc::Queue`]: https://docs.rs/heapless/0.7.5/heapless/spsc/struct.Queue.html
 
-
 ``` rust
 {{#include ../../../../examples/static.rs}}
 ```

book/en/src/by-example/tips_view_code.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ options:
 You can inspect the file `rtic-expansion.rs` inside the `target` directory. This
 file contains the expansion of the `#[rtic::app]` item (not your whole program!)
 of the *last built* (via `cargo build` or `cargo check`) RTIC application. The
-expanded code is not pretty printed by default so you'll want to run `rustfmt`
+expanded code is not pretty printed by default, so you'll want to run `rustfmt`
 on it before you read it.
 
 ``` console
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ $ cargo build --example foo
 
 $ rustfmt target/rtic-expansion.rs
 
-$ tail target/rtic-expansion.rs
+tail target/rtic-expansion.rs
 ```
 
 ``` rust
@@ -43,6 +43,6 @@ crate and print the output to the console.
 [`cargo-expand`]: https://crates.io/crates/cargo-expand
 
 ``` console
-$ # produces the same output as before
-$ cargo expand --example smallest | tail
+# produces the same output as before
+cargo expand --example smallest | tail
 ```