diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml
index e5faf1394f..ee4c3f7d63 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml
@@ -148,10 +148,10 @@
       <secondary>COMPAT_LINUX</secondary>
     </indexterm>
 
-    <para>Since the &linux; binary compatibility layer has gained support
-      for running both 32- and 64-bit &linux; binaries (on 64-bit x86 hosts),
-      it is no longer possible to link the emulation functionality statically
-      into a custom kernel.</para>
+    <para>Since the &linux; binary compatibility layer has gained
+      support for running both 32- and 64-bit &linux; binaries (on
+      64-bit x86 hosts), it is no longer possible to link the
+      emulation functionality statically into a custom kernel.</para>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="linuxemu-libs-manually">
       <title>Installing Additional Libraries Manually</title>
@@ -673,8 +673,7 @@ FEATURE Maple maplelmg 2000.0831 permanent 1 XXXXXXXXXXXX \
 	</step>
 
 	<step>
-	  <para>
-	    When asked for the <application>&matlab;</application>
+	  <para>When asked for the <application>&matlab;</application>
 	    root directory, type:
 	    <userinput>/compat/linux/usr/local/matlab</userinput>.</para>
 
@@ -1209,8 +1208,8 @@ export PATH</programlisting>
       &os;, system call entry points.</para>
 
     <para>&linux; mode dynamically <emphasis>reroots</emphasis>
-      lookups.  This is, in effect, equivalent to the
-      <option>union</option> option to file system mounts.  First, an
+      lookups.  This is, in effect, equivalent to
+      <option>union</option> to file system mounts.  First, an
       attempt is made to lookup the file in
       <filename>/compat/linux/<replaceable>original-path</replaceable></filename>.
       If that fails, the lookup is done in