diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer/chapter.sgml
index c3b2c4d80e..eb71dc5139 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer/chapter.sgml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
      ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
      POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
-     $Id: chapter.sgml,v 1.7 1999-07-30 21:25:50 nik Exp $
+     $Id: chapter.sgml,v 1.8 1999-09-03 17:14:12 nik Exp $
 -->
 
 <chapter id="sgml-primer">
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@
       must typically be done by a person&mdash;after all, if computers could
       recognise the text sufficiently well to add the markup then there would
       be no need to add it in the first place.  This <emphasis>increases the
-	cost</emphasis> of the document.</para>
+	cost</emphasis> (i.e., the effort required) to create the
+	document.</para>
 
     <para>The previous example is actually represented in this document like
       this;</para>
@@ -410,15 +411,16 @@ setenv SGML_CATALOG_FILES ${SGML_ROOT}/docbook/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES</prog
             document's Element Structure Information Set (ESIS, but that is
            not important right now).</para>
 
-	  <para>However, when <option>-s</option> is passed as a parameter to
-	    it, &man.nsgmls.1; will suppress its normal output, and just print
-	    error messages.  This makes it a useful way to check to see if your
-	    document is valid or not.</para>
+	  <para>However, when &man.nsgmls.1; is given the <option>-s</option>
+	    parameter, &man.nsgmls.1; will suppress its normal output, and
+	    just print error messages.  This makes it a useful way to check to
+	    see if your document is valid or not.</para>
 
 	  <para>Use &man.nsgmls.1; to check that your document is
 	    valid;</para>
 
-          <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>nsgmls -s example.sgml</userinput></screen>
+          <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>nsgmls -s
+	      example.sgml</userinput></screen>
 
 	  <para>As you will see, &man.nsgmls.1; returns without displaying any
 	    output.  This means that your document validated
@@ -806,7 +808,7 @@ PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"             "4.0/strict.dtd"</programlisting>
       inside a DTD.  However, as <xref linkend="sgml-primer-sgml-escape">
       shows, it is possible to use SGML syntax within your document.</para>
 
-    <para>The delimiters for SGML comments is the string
+    <para>The delimiter for SGML comments is the string
       &ldquo;<literal>--</literal>&rdquo;.  The first occurence of this string
       opens a comment, and the second closes it.</para>
 
@@ -1370,7 +1372,7 @@ PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"             "4.0/strict.dtd"</programlisting>
 	    model</emphasis>, and allow you to change it from the
 	  default.</para>
 	
-	<para>When an SGML parser is processing a document, it keeps track
+	<para>When an SGML parser is processing a document it keeps track
 	  of what is called the &ldquo;content model&rdquo;.</para>
 	
 	<para>Briefly, the content model describes what sort of content the
diff --git a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer/chapter.sgml
index c3b2c4d80e..eb71dc5139 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer/chapter.sgml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
      ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
      POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
-     $Id: chapter.sgml,v 1.7 1999-07-30 21:25:50 nik Exp $
+     $Id: chapter.sgml,v 1.8 1999-09-03 17:14:12 nik Exp $
 -->
 
 <chapter id="sgml-primer">
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@
       must typically be done by a person&mdash;after all, if computers could
       recognise the text sufficiently well to add the markup then there would
       be no need to add it in the first place.  This <emphasis>increases the
-	cost</emphasis> of the document.</para>
+	cost</emphasis> (i.e., the effort required) to create the
+	document.</para>
 
     <para>The previous example is actually represented in this document like
       this;</para>
@@ -410,15 +411,16 @@ setenv SGML_CATALOG_FILES ${SGML_ROOT}/docbook/catalog:$SGML_CATALOG_FILES</prog
             document's Element Structure Information Set (ESIS, but that is
            not important right now).</para>
 
-	  <para>However, when <option>-s</option> is passed as a parameter to
-	    it, &man.nsgmls.1; will suppress its normal output, and just print
-	    error messages.  This makes it a useful way to check to see if your
-	    document is valid or not.</para>
+	  <para>However, when &man.nsgmls.1; is given the <option>-s</option>
+	    parameter, &man.nsgmls.1; will suppress its normal output, and
+	    just print error messages.  This makes it a useful way to check to
+	    see if your document is valid or not.</para>
 
 	  <para>Use &man.nsgmls.1; to check that your document is
 	    valid;</para>
 
-          <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>nsgmls -s example.sgml</userinput></screen>
+          <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>nsgmls -s
+	      example.sgml</userinput></screen>
 
 	  <para>As you will see, &man.nsgmls.1; returns without displaying any
 	    output.  This means that your document validated
@@ -806,7 +808,7 @@ PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"             "4.0/strict.dtd"</programlisting>
       inside a DTD.  However, as <xref linkend="sgml-primer-sgml-escape">
       shows, it is possible to use SGML syntax within your document.</para>
 
-    <para>The delimiters for SGML comments is the string
+    <para>The delimiter for SGML comments is the string
       &ldquo;<literal>--</literal>&rdquo;.  The first occurence of this string
       opens a comment, and the second closes it.</para>
 
@@ -1370,7 +1372,7 @@ PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"             "4.0/strict.dtd"</programlisting>
 	    model</emphasis>, and allow you to change it from the
 	  default.</para>
 	
-	<para>When an SGML parser is processing a document, it keeps track
+	<para>When an SGML parser is processing a document it keeps track
 	  of what is called the &ldquo;content model&rdquo;.</para>
 	
 	<para>Briefly, the content model describes what sort of content the