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[beast: 15/24] BUILD: adjust Beast & Bse descriptions in README files and docs

commit 35cf76adb4b76b4b4521c164384428701d701fad
Author: Tim Janik <timj gnu org>
Date:   Mon Sep 14 10:58:15 2015 +0200

    BUILD: adjust Beast & Bse descriptions in README files and docs

 README                       |   32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 data/bse.pc.in               |    4 ++--
 docs/doxygen.cfg             |    2 +-
 docs/main.dox                |    4 ++--
 drivers/bse-portaudio/README |   20 ++++++++++----------
 5 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/README b/README
index 756cbd3..921fbc2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,35 +1,35 @@
 General Information
 ===================
 
-This is a development version of BEAST, the BEtter Audio SysTem.
-BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application
-released as free software under the GNU LGPL, that runs under Unix.
-More information about the project can can be found on the website
-and in the documentation.
-
-Beast is a soft realtime application which needs elevated CPU
-scheduling priorities. It installs a small suid wrapper which
-acquires nice level -20 and then immediately drops privileges.
+This is the development version of Beast & Bse. BEAST is the BSE
+Equipped Audio Synthesizer and Tracker, and BSE is the Beast Sound Engine.
+Beast is a music composition and modular synthesis application, that is
+released as Free Software under the GNU LGPL and runs under Unix.
+
+Beast is a soft realtime application which needs elevated CPU scheduling
+priorities to avoid audio glitches and drop outs. For this purpose, it
+installs a small uid wrapper which acquires nice level -20 for the
+synthesis threads and then immediately drops privileges.
 For Linux kernels of the 2.6.x series and later, this enables the
-low-latency scheduling behavior needed to avoid audio drop outs,
+low-latency scheduling behavior needed to avoid audio artefacts,
 this kernel series is therefore recommended for operating Beast.
 
-In order to build release tarballs, Rapicorn-14.10, the GnomeCanvas,
+In order to build release tarballs, Rapicorn, the GnomeCanvas,
 Guile, the Ogg/Vorbis Codec libraries and libflac are required.
 Support for MP3 files is optional and requires libmad (MPEG audio
-decoder library) when compiling BEAST.
+decoder library) when compiling Beast.
 
-The web site, download and forums for BEAST are:
+The web site, download and forums for Beast are:
   http://beast.testbit.eu/
   http://beast.testbit.eu/beast-ftp/
   http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ (beast gnome org)
   #beast on GimpNet (irc.gimp.org:6666)
 
-BEAST also supports the LADSPA plugin API, so various kinds of third
-party plugins can be loaded and executed by BEAST. LADSPA plugins are
+Beast also supports the LADSPA plugin API, so various kinds of third
+party plugins can be loaded and executed by Beast. LADSPA plugins are
 available from:
        http://www.ladspa.org
-BEAST will look for LADSPA plugins under lib/ladspa/ inside it's own
+Beast will look for LADSPA plugins under lib/ladspa/ inside it's own
 installation prefix, and in the directories listed in $LADSPA_PATH.
 
 
diff --git a/data/bse.pc.in b/data/bse.pc.in
index 521cd3c..50287cb 100644
--- a/data/bse.pc.in
+++ b/data/bse.pc.in
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ driverdir= pkglibdir@/drivers
 effectdir= pkgdatadir@/effects
 instrumentdir= pkgdatadir@/instruments
 
-Name: BSE
-Description: Better Sound Engine (Synthesis Core)
+Name: Beast & Bse
+Description: Beast & Bse are an audio tracker and audio synthesis engine.
 Requires: @BSE_PC_REQUIRE@ gobject-2.0 gmodule-2.0
 Version: @BST_VERSION@
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lbse- BST_VERSION_STEM@ @BSE_PC_LIBS@
diff --git a/docs/doxygen.cfg b/docs/doxygen.cfg
index e201cf3..8588fd4 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen.cfg
+++ b/docs/doxygen.cfg
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PROJECT_NAME           = "BEAST/BSE - Better Audio System and Sound Engine"
+PROJECT_NAME           = "BEAST - Free Software Audio Synthesizer and Tracker"
 #OUTPUT_DIRECTORY      = doxyhtml/
 GENERATE_LATEX         = NO
 GENERATE_MAN           = NO
diff --git a/docs/main.dox b/docs/main.dox
index 042ba42..1ba92a9 100644
--- a/docs/main.dox
+++ b/docs/main.dox
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 - <a href="beast-ChangeLog.html"><b>ChangeLog</b></a> - Beast Development ChangeLog
 
 @section manpages Manual Pages
-- <a href="beast.1.html"><b>Beast</b></a> - Better Audio System
+- <a href="beast.1.html"><b>Beast</b></a> - BSE Equipped Audio Synthesizer and Tracker
 - <a href="bsewavetool.1.html"><b>Bsewavetool</b></a> - A tool for editing the native multisample format of 
Beast and Bse
-- <a href="bse.5.html"><b>BSE</b></a> - Better Sound Engine File Format
+- <a href="bse.5.html"><b>BSE</b></a> - Beast Sound Engine (file format)
 - <a href="bsescm.1.html"><b>Bsescm</b></a> - BSE Scheme Shell
 - <a href="sfidl.1.html"><b>Sfidl</b></a> - SFI IDL Compiler
 
diff --git a/drivers/bse-portaudio/README b/drivers/bse-portaudio/README
index cf34ea5..b78ec86 100644
--- a/drivers/bse-portaudio/README
+++ b/drivers/bse-portaudio/README
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 BSE Driver Package
 ==================
 
-This is a BSE (Better Sound Engine) plugin/driver package.  In order to
-build this package, you need recent versions of BSE (>=0.6.4) and PortAudioV19.
+This is a Beast & Bse driver plugin package.  In order to build this
+package, you need recent versions of Beast (>=0.6.4) and PortAudioV19.
 
 PortAudio (>= V19):
   http://www.portaudio.com/
 
-The official ftp site for BEAST/BSE is:
+The official ftp site for Beast & Bse is:
   ftp://beast.testbit.eu/pub/beast
 
-The official web site for BEAST/BSE is:
+The official web site for Beast & Bse is:
   http://beast.testbit.eu/
 
 There also is a mailing list for the project (beast gnome org):
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ build from this package will be installed under the drivers/. subdirectory of
 an existing libbse installation. The exact installation location can be found
 out via pkg-config with:
 
-  pkg-config --variable=driverdir bse  
+  pkg-config --variable=driverdir bse
 
 For general installation instructions, see the file `INSTALL'.
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Known Issues with this Version
 
   Since PortAudioV19 has not publically been released yet, this driver
   currently depends on CVS snapshots which can be obtained from:
-  
+
       http://www.portaudio.com/archives/pa_snapshot_v19.tar.gz
 
 * The BSE-PortAudio is largly untested
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Known Issues with this Version
   but PortAudio can be initialized using:
 
       $ beast -p portaudio=oss:0,wo
-  
+
   to use the writeonly mode which really is supposed to work.
 
 * The default device used may not be right
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Known Issues with this Version
   Thus starting BEAST with:
 
       $ beast -p portaudio
-  
+
   BEAST may or may not be using the default PortAudio driver. For now, you
   may want to explicitely specify the driver to use, since the "default"
   option of the PortAudio driver is also not implemented correctly (it will
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ Known Issues with this Version
   very deeply, but it looks like PortAudio should be patched to fix this.
 
 * Feedback request
-  
+
   Please let us know any issues you have with the driver, as mentioned above,
   we're interested in working and non-wroking driver reports.
   Feedback should be send to the BEAST mailing list:
-  
+
        EMail:   beast gnome org
        List:    http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/
        Archive: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/beast/
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