minor update (acknowledgement) (#240)

Author: boughrira

source/frontmatter.ptx

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
       <today />
     </date>
   </titlepage>
-  <preface permid="Cpq">
+  <preface>
     <p>
       This book was written by undergraduate students at Wright College who were enrolled in my Math 299 class, Writing in the Sciences.
     </p>
@@ -44,76 +44,79 @@
   </preface>
 
   <acknowledgement>
-    <p permid="ewA">
+    <p>
       We would like to acknowledge the following peer-reviewers:
-      <ul permid="ODI">
-        <li permid="XXu">
-          <p permid="hrg">
+      <ul>
+        <li>
+          <p>
             Moty Katzman, University of Sheffield
           </p>
         </li>
 
-        <li permid="uKR">
-          <p permid="EeD">
+        <li>
+          <p>
             Ken Levasseur, University of Massachusetts Lowell
           </p>
         </li>
 
-        <li permid="XXu">
-          <p permid="hrg">
+        <li>
+          <p>
             Vartuyi Manoyan, Wright College
           </p>
         </li>
       </ul>
     </p>
 
-    <p permid="ewA">
+    <p>
       We would like to acknowledge the following proof-readers:
-      <ul permid="ODI">
-        <li permid="XXu">
-          <p permid="hrg">
+      <ul>
+        <li>
+          <p>
             Ted Jankowski, Wright College
           </p>
         </li>
 
-        <li permid="XXu">
-          <p permid="hrg">
+        <li>
+          <p>
             Justin Lowry, Wright College
           </p>
         </li>
 
-        <li permid="XXu">
-          <p permid="hrg">
+        <li>
+          <p>
             Yolanda Nieves, Wright College
           </p>
         </li>
 
-        <li permid="uKR">
-          <p permid="EeD">
+        <li>
+          <p>
             Fabio Re, Rosalind Franklin University
 
           </p>
         </li>
 
-        <li permid="XXu">
-          <p permid="hrg">
+        <li>
+          <p>
             Tineka Scalzo, Wright College
           </p>
         </li>
       </ul>
     </p>
 
-    <p>
-        The making of this book is supported in part by the Wright College Open Educational Resource Expansion grant from the Secretary of State/Illinois State Library.
-    </p>
-
+    <p>The making of this book is supported in part by the Wright College Open Educational Resource
+      Expansion grant from the Secretary of State/Illinois State Library. Many thanks to Tineka Scalzo,
+      the Wright College librarian, for her unwavering advocacy and invaluable support.</p>
 
+    <p>We extend our sincere gratitude to David Potash, President of Wright College (2013-2024), for his
+      steadfast moral and material support since the project's inception. His encouragement, demonstrated
+      through attending student presentations and securing grant funding on their behalf, along with his
+      scholarly vision and generosity, has been instrumental in bringing this project to fruition.</p>
   </acknowledgement>
 
   <preface>
     <title>From the Student Authors</title>
 
-    <p permid="KDJ">
+    <p>
       This textbook is a testament to our collaborative spirit and the Open Education movement, aiming to make higher education accessible to all by providing approachable resources for students to learn open-source mathematics software.
     </p>
 

source/getting-started/sec-miscellaneous.ptx

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     <introduction>
         <p>
-            Sage is feature rich, and the following is a brief introduction of some of its miscellaneous
+            Sage is feature rich, and the following is a brief introduction to some of its miscellaneous
             features. Keep in mind that the primary goal of this book is to introduce Sage software and
             demonstrate how it can be used to experiment with discrete math concepts within Sage environment.
         </p>