--- a/scripts/pkg/private/get_unsatisfied_deps.m	Thu May 10 21:48:52 2012 -0700
+++ b/scripts/pkg/private/get_unsatisfied_deps.m	Thu May 10 22:08:18 2012 -0700
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{bad_deps} =} get_unsatisfied_deps (@var{desc},@var{installed_pkgs_lst})
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{bad_deps} =} get_unsatisfied_deps (@var{desc}, @var{installed_pkgs_lst})
 ## Undocumented internal function.
 ## @end deftypefn
 

--- a/scripts/plot/print.m	Thu May 10 21:48:52 2012 -0700
+++ b/scripts/plot/print.m	Thu May 10 22:08:18 2012 -0700
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} print (@var{options})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} print (@var{filename}, @var{options})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} print (@var{h}, @var{filename}, @var{options})
-## Print a graph, or save it to a file. Both output formatted for 
+## Print a graph, or save it to a file.  Both output formatted for 
 ## printing (PDF and PostScript), and many bitmapped and vector
 ## image formats are supported.
 ##
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 ##
 ## For output to a printer, to a PostScript file, or a PDF file,
 ## the paper size is specified by the figure's @code{papersize}
-## property. The location and size of the image on the page are
-## specified by the figure's @code{paperposition} property. The
+## property.  The location and size of the image on the page are
+## specified by the figure's @code{paperposition} property.  The
 ## orientation of the page is specified by the figure's
 ## @code{paperorientation} property.
 ##

--- a/scripts/plot/shrinkfaces.m	Thu May 10 21:48:52 2012 -0700
+++ b/scripts/plot/shrinkfaces.m	Thu May 10 22:08:18 2012 -0700
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Function File} {} shrinkfaces (@var{p}, @var{sf})
+## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} shrinkfaces (@var{p}, @var{sf})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{nfv} =} shrinkfaces (@var{p}, @var{sf})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{nfv} =} shrinkfaces (@var{fv}, @var{sf})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{nfv} =} shrinkfaces (@var{f}, @var{v}, @var{sf})
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 ## Performing the shrinking on faces which are not convex can lead to
 ## undesired results.
 ##
-## For example
+## For example,
 ##
 ## @example
 ## @group

--- a/scripts/polynomial/polyfit.m	Thu May 10 21:48:52 2012 -0700
+++ b/scripts/polynomial/polyfit.m	Thu May 10 22:08:18 2012 -0700
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{p}, @var{s}, @var{mu}] =} polyfit (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{n})
 ## Return the coefficients of a polynomial @var{p}(@var{x}) of degree
 ## @var{n} that minimizes the least-squares-error of the fit to the points
-## @code{[@var{x}, @var{y}]}. If @var{n} is a logical vector, it is used
+## @code{[@var{x}, @var{y}]}.  If @var{n} is a logical vector, it is used
 ## as a mask to selectively force the corresponding polynomial
 ## coefficients to be used or ignored.
 ##
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 ## @end table
 ##
 ## The second output may be used by @code{polyval} to calculate the
-## statistical error limits of the predicted values. In particular, the
+## statistical error limits of the predicted values.  In particular, the
 ## standard deviation of @var{p} coefficients is given by @*
 ## @code{sqrt (diag (s.C)/s.df)*s.normr}.
 ##

--- a/scripts/polynomial/splinefit.m	Thu May 10 21:48:52 2012 -0700
+++ b/scripts/polynomial/splinefit.m	Thu May 10 22:08:18 2012 -0700
@@ -17,18 +17,18 @@
 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{pp} =} splinefit (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{breaks})
-## Fits a piecewise cubic spline with breaks (knots) @var{breaks} to the
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{pp} =} splinefit (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{breaks})
+## Fit a piecewise cubic spline with breaks (knots) @var{breaks} to the
 ## noisy data, @var{x} and @var{y}.  @var{x} is a vector, and @var{y}
-## a vector or ND array.  If @var{y} is an ND array, then @var{x}(j)
-## is matched to @var{y}(:,...,:,j).
+## a vector or N-D array.  If @var{y} is an N-D array, then @var{x}(j)
+## is matched to @var{y}(:,@dots{},:,j).
 ##
-## The fitted spline is returned as a piece-wise polynomial, @var{pp}, and
+## The fitted spline is returned as a piecewise polynomial, @var{pp}, and
 ## may be evaluated using @code{ppval}.
 ##
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{pp} =} splinefit (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{p})
 ## @var{p} is a positive integer defining the number of intervals along @var{x},
-## and @var{p}+1 is the number of breaks. The number of points in each interval
+## and @var{p}+1 is the number of breaks.  The number of points in each interval
 ## differ by no more than 1.
 ##
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{pp} =} splinefit (@dots{}, "periodic", @var{periodic})
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 ##
 ## The optional property @var{periodic} is a logical value which specifies
 ## whether a periodic boundary condition is applied to the spline.  The
-## length of the period  is @code{max(@var{breaks})-min(@var{breaks})}.
+## length of the period is @code{max(@var{breaks})-min(@var{breaks})}.
 ## The default value is @code{false}.
 ##
 ## The optional property @var{robust} is a logical value which specifies
@@ -65,12 +65,14 @@
 ## @table @asis
 ## @item "xc"
 ## Vector of the x-locations of the constraints.
+##
 ## @item "yc"
 ## Constaining values at the locations, @var{xc}.
 ## The default is an array of zeros.
+##
 ## @item "cc"
 ## Coefficients (matrix).  The default is an array of ones.  The number of
-## rows is limited to the order of the piece-wise polynomials, @var{order}.
+## rows is limited to the order of the piecewise polynomials, @var{order}.
 ## @end table
 ##
 ## Constraints are linear combinations of derivatives of order 0 to

--- a/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/chol.cc	Thu May 10 21:48:52 2012 -0700
+++ b/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/chol.cc	Thu May 10 22:08:18 2012 -0700
@@ -129,9 +129,9 @@
 \n\
 @end ifnottex\n\
 \n\
-For full matrices, if the \"lower\" flag is set only the lower triangular part\n\
-of the matrix is used for the factorization, otherwise the upper triangular\n\
-part is used.\n\
+For full matrices, if the \"lower\" flag is set only the lower triangular\n\
+part of the matrix is used for the factorization, otherwise the upper\n\
+triangular part is used.\n\
 \n\
 In general the lower triangular factorization is significantly faster for\n\
 sparse matrices.\n\
@@ -623,6 +623,7 @@
 Update or downdate a Cholesky@tie{}factorization.  Given an upper triangular\n\
 matrix @var{R} and a column vector @var{u}, attempt to determine another\n\
 upper triangular matrix @var{R1} such that\n\
+\n\
 @itemize @bullet\n\
 @item\n\
 @var{R1}'*@var{R1} = @var{R}'*@var{R} + @var{u}*@var{u}'\n\
@@ -634,6 +635,7 @@
 @end itemize\n\
 \n\
 If @var{op} is \"-\", @var{info} is set to\n\
+\n\
 @itemize\n\
 @item 0 if the downdate was successful,\n\
 \n\
@@ -833,6 +835,7 @@
 @var{A1}, where @w{A1(p,p) = A}, @w{A1(:,j) = A1(j,:)' = u} and\n\
 @w{p = [1:j-1,j+1:n+1]}.  @w{u(j)} should be positive.\n\
 On return, @var{info} is set to\n\
+\n\
 @itemize\n\
 @item 0 if the insertion was successful,\n\
 \n\

--- a/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc	Thu May 10 21:48:52 2012 -0700
+++ b/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc	Thu May 10 22:08:18 2012 -0700
@@ -358,9 +358,9 @@
 \n\
 By default, the generator is initialized from @code{/dev/urandom} if it is\n\
 available, otherwise from CPU time, wall clock time, and the current\n\
-fraction of a second.  Note that this differs from @sc{Matlab}, which\n\
+fraction of a second.  Note that this differs from @sc{matlab}, which\n\
 always initializes the state to the same state at startup.  To obtain\n\
-behavior comparable to @sc{Matlab}, initialize with a deterministic state\n\
+behavior comparable to @sc{matlab}, initialize with a deterministic state\n\
 vector in Octave's startup files (@pxref{Startup Files}).\n\
 \n\
 To compute the pseudo-random sequence, @code{rand} uses the Mersenne\n\

--- a/src/sparse.cc	Thu May 10 21:48:52 2012 -0700
+++ b/src/sparse.cc	Thu May 10 22:08:18 2012 -0700
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 \n\
 @strong{Note}: if multiple values are specified with the same\n\
 @var{i}, @var{j} indices, the corresponding values in @var{s} will\n\
-be added. See @code{accumarray} for an example of how to produce different\n\
+be added.  See @code{accumarray} for an example of how to produce different\n\
 behavior, such as taking the minimum instead.\n\
 \n\
 The following are all equivalent:\n\