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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/package-management.xml2
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml5
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/package-management.xml b/doc/manual/package-management.xml
index 927719e93912..a24ca0a696d6 100644
--- a/doc/manual/package-management.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/package-management.xml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ component is installed in your current user environment.  The second
 very quick operation).  The last one (<literal>S</literal>) indicates
 whether there is a so-called <emphasis>substitute</emphasis> for the
 component, which is Nix’s mechanism for doing binary deployment.  It
-just means that Nix know that it can fetch a pre-built component from
+just means that Nix knows that it can fetch a pre-built component from
 somewhere (typically a network server) instead of building it
 locally.</para>
 
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
index b8d097ae2286..1cc5bb95b8c3 100644
--- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
@@ -635,13 +635,14 @@ language.</para>
     complicated example (from the Nix expression for <link
     xlink:href='http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt'>Qt</link>):
 
-<programlisting>    
+<programlisting>
 configureFlags = "
   -system-zlib -system-libpng -system-libjpeg
   ${if openglSupport then "-dlopen-opengl
     -L${mesa}/lib -I${mesa}/include
     -L${libXmu}/lib -I${libXmu}/include" else ""}
-  ${if threadSupport then "-thread" else "-no-thread"}</programlisting>
+  ${if threadSupport then "-thread" else "-no-thread"}
+";</programlisting>
 
     Note that Nix expressions and strings can be arbitrarily nested;
     in this case the outer string contains various antiquotations that