a typo

mark.summerfield · mark.summerfield · commit 995e09fb36f5 · 2008-09-02T07:23:16.000Z
git-svn-id: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk@66143 6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ The Python documentation was written using LaTeX since the project
 started around 1989.  In the 1980s and early 1990s, most documentation
 was printed out for later study, not viewed online. LaTeX was widely
 used because it provided attractive printed output while remaining
-straightforward to write once the basic rules of the markup werw
+straightforward to write once the basic rules of the markup were
 learned.
 
 Today LaTeX is still used for writing publications destined for
