diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbasehttp.tex b/Doc/lib/libbasehttp.tex
index df04202040e..e680305261a 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libbasehttp.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libbasehttp.tex
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 \section{Standard Module \module{BaseHTTPServer}}
 \declaremodule{standard}{BaseHTTPServer}
 
-\modulesynopsis{Basic HTTP server (base class for SimpleHTTPServer and CGIHTTPServer).}
+\modulesynopsis{Basic HTTP server (base class for
+\class{SimpleHTTPServer} and \class{CGIHTTPServer}).}
 
 
 \indexii{WWW}{server}
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburlparse.tex b/Doc/lib/liburlparse.tex
index 4c3af7dc393..9a2b4f53077 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/liburlparse.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/liburlparse.tex
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 \section{Standard Module \module{urlparse}}
 \declaremodule{standard}{urlparse}
 
-\modulesynopsis{Parse a URL string into a tuple (addressing scheme identifier, network
-location, path, parameters, query string, fragment identifier).}
+\modulesynopsis{Parse URLs into components.}
 
 \index{WWW}
 \index{World-Wide Web}
@@ -14,7 +13,7 @@ location, path, parameters, query string, fragment identifier).}
 This module defines a standard interface to break URL strings up in
 components (addessing scheme, network location, path etc.), to combine
 the components back into a URL string, and to convert a ``relative
-URL'' to an absolute URL given a ``base URL''.
+URL'' to an absolute URL given a ``base URL.''
 
 The module has been designed to match the Internet RFC on Relative
 Uniform Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libxdrlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libxdrlib.tex
index 47524c6292a..20044989fc2 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libxdrlib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libxdrlib.tex
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 \declaremodule{standard}{xdrlib}
 
 \modulesynopsis{The External Data Representation Standard as described
-in \rfc{1014}, written by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 1987.}
+in \rfc{1014}.}
 
 \index{XDR}
 \index{External Data Representation}