Fix grammatical errors in README and changelog

ChangeLog.md

@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@
-# Ver. 1.1.0 (2019-5-1)
-
 ## New
 
 - An interface to OpenMX code (contributed by Yuto Tanaka)
-- Compressive sensing approach (``LMODEL = enet``) in alm code. Many new variables related to the compressive sensing are also added. See the document page for details.
+- Compressive sensing approach (``LMODEL = enet``) in alm code. Many new variables related to compressive sensing are also added. See the documentation page for details.
 - ``SPARSE`` and ``SPARSESOLVER`` tags in alm code
 - ``DOS``-tag in anphon code
-- A python script scph_to_qe.py that converts the result of a SCPH calculation to Quantum ESPRESSO force-constant format.
+- A python script scph_to_qe.py that converts the result of an SCPH calculation to Quantum ESPRESSO force-constant format.
 
 ## Changes
 
-- Default value of ``ICONST`` is changed to ``ICONST = 11``
+- The default value of ``ICONST`` is changed to ``ICONST = 11``
 - Python scripts now work with python3 as well as python2
-- Python interface scripts are move to tools/interface
+- Python interface scripts are moved to tools/interface
 - Default values for ``MASS``- and ``ISOFACT``-tags are implemented
 - Implement a sparse version of rref, which improves the performance of alm significantly.
 - Performance improvements of anphon code.
@@ -21,7 +19,7 @@
 
 ## Fix
 
-- Fix a minor bug in calc_damping_tetrahedron. The phonon linewidths at high temperatures and the thermal conductivityies were not affected by this minor error. In very low temperature region (< 10 K), the thermal conductivity may have been underestimated.
+- Fix a minor bug in calc_damping_tetrahedron. The phonon linewidths at high temperatures and the thermal conductivities were not affected by this minor error. In a very low-temperature region (< 10 K), the thermal conductivity may have been underestimated.
 - Fix other minor bugs
 
 # Ver. 1.0.1 (2017-11-21)
@@ -65,7 +63,7 @@
 
 ## Changes
 
-- P+ and P- are printed seperately in PREFIX.sps when ``SPS = 1``
+- P+ and P- are printed separately in PREFIX.sps when ``SPS = 1``
 - Use C++11 standard. From this version, the C++ compiler must support the C++11 standard.
 - The **anphon** code symmetrize the Born effective charges
 
@@ -81,13 +79,13 @@
 
 - New tag ``HESSIAN`` in program **alm** for printing entire Hessian matrix
 - New tag ``KAPPA_SPEC`` in **anphon** for calculating spectra of thermal conductivity
-- New option ``--offset`` in **extract.py** for subtracting residual forces (displacements) in an equilibrium structure from training data sets. We recommended to use this option if internal coordinates of atoms (Wyckoff potisions) have free parameters.
+- New option ``--offset`` in **extract.py** for subtracting residual forces (displacements) in an equilibrium structure from training data sets. We recommended using this option if internal coordinates of atoms (Wyckoff positions) have free parameters.
 - New option ``--isotope`` in **analyze_phonons.py**
 
 ## Changes
 
 - Improve the performance of thermal conductivity calculations with the tetrahedron method (``ISMEAR=-1``). The new version is <Font color='red'>more than 3 times faster</font> than the previous version.
-- Improve the efficiency of the algorithm for generating constraings for the translational invariance
+- Improve the efficiency of the algorithm for generating constraints for the translational invariance
 - Avoid 'NaN' in thermal conductivity calculations with imaginary branches
 - Loosen the default value of ``TOLERANCE`` for detecting crystal symmetry
 - Stop printing the CLASSICAL entry in PREFIX.result files
@@ -106,7 +104,7 @@
 ## New
 
 - New option ``SPS = 2`` in anphon
-- New tag ``MAGMOM`` for considering collinear spin (alm). The format is same as VASP.
+- New tag ``MAGMOM`` for considering collinear spin (alm). The format is the same as VASP.
 - ALAMODE logo 
 
 ## Changes
@@ -180,7 +178,7 @@
 
 ## New
 
-- New tag PRINTPR (anphon) for calculating (atomic) participation ratio
+- New tag ``PRINTPR`` (anphon) for calculating (atomic) participation ratio
 
 - Implement ``ISOTOPE = 2`` to print the selfenergy due to phonon-isotope scatterings (anphon)
 
@@ -241,7 +239,7 @@
 
 - Fixed a bug in analyze_phonons.cpp
 
-- Fixed a MPI-related bug in relaxationc.pp
+- Fixed an MPI-related bug in relaxationc.pp
 
 - Avoid unnecessary memory allocation in relaxation.cpp
 
@@ -268,4 +266,4 @@
 
 # Ver. 0.9.0 (2014-08-15)
 
--  First release of ALAMODE
+-  The first release of ALAMODE

README.md

@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
 ## Introduction 
 
 ALAMODE is a scientific software designed for analyzing lattice anharmonicity
-and  lattice thermal conductivity of solids. By using an external DFT package
+and lattice thermal conductivity of solids. By using an external DFT package
 such as VASP and Quantum ESPRESSO, you can extract harmonic and anharmonic
-force constants  straightforwardly with ALAMODE. Using the calculated anharmonic
+force constants straightforwardly with ALAMODE. Using the calculated anharmonic
 force constants, you can also estimate lattice thermal conductivity, phonon
 linewidth, and other anharmonic phonon properties from first principles.
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ linewidth, and other anharmonic phonon properties from first principles.
 * Animation and visualization of phonon modes (requires VMD or XCrysDen)
 * 3-phonon scattering phase space
 * Phonon-isotope scattering rate
-* Participation ratio for analyzing localization of phonon modes
+* Participation ratio for analyzing the localization of phonon modes
 
 
 ### Anharmonic properties
@@ -70,18 +70,17 @@ You can also clone the repository as
 $ git clone http://github.com/ttadano/alamode.git
 ```
 
-If you download the github version, please use the 'master' branch.
+If you download the GitHub version, please use the 'master' branch.
 
 ## Install
 The directories alm/, anphon/, and tools/ contain separate Makefiles.
 Please modify the Makefiles appropriately by changing variables such as 
-CXX, CXXFLAGS, or MPICXX. Then, execute "make" will create the binary for
-each program. Please see the documentation for more details.
+CXX, CXXFLAGS, or MPICXX. Then, issuing the "make" command creates the binary for each program. Please see the documentation for more details.
 
 
 ## Documentation
-For more details about ALAMODE including tutorial, input parameters, and 
-output files, please visit the following webpabe.
+For more details about ALAMODE including the tutorial, input parameters, and 
+output files, please visit the following webpage.
 
 http://alamode.readthedocs.io