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* We write the Audacity Manual at https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org
* We wget it and mangle it a little using our script, https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/scripts/mw2html_audacity/mw2html.py
* We get it and mangle it a little using our script, https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/scripts/mw2html_audacity/mw2html.py
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[Nitpick/Proofreading/Question] I’m having trouble understanding what “mangle” means @Rajeta-Sarkar. Does it mean fix?

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* We get it and mangle it a little using our script, https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/scripts/mw2html_audacity/mw2html.py
* We get it and mangle it a little using our script, https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/scripts/mw2html_audacity/mw2html.py

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"wget" refers to: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

"Mangled" means that it is pulled around / modified. In British English the term is used, slightly humorously, to describe something being reshaped in an inelegant manner.


* Most of our tricks are documented at https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Magicke_Spells
* The heavy lifting is done by our 'What Is That' page https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Using_WIT
* The heavy lifting is done by our 'What Is That' page https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Using_WIT
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[Nitpick/Proofreading] I think hyperlinking the page’s title would make it quicker for users to access the content. Consider doing that for line 15.

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* The heavy lifting is done by our 'What Is That' page https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Using_WIT
* The heavy lifting is done by our [What Is That page](https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Using_WIT)

There is a lot of content in our manual which would be prohibitively time consuming to produce without automated tools to help us. This is particularly so of the many image maps in the manual.
There is a lot of content in our manual which would be prohibitively time consuming to produce without automated tools to help us. This is particularly so of the many image maps in the manual.

* Most of our tricks are documented at https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Magicke_Spells
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[Nitpick/proofreading] see line 16 for context.

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* Most of our tricks are documented at https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Magicke_Spells
* Most of our tricks are documented at https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Magicke_Spells

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