diff --git a/pep-0461.txt b/pep-0461.txt
index c38a29673..9053d7c00 100644
--- a/pep-0461.txt
+++ b/pep-0461.txt
@@ -59,15 +59,15 @@ Example:
     >>> b'%c' % b'a'
     b'a'
 
-``%s`` is restricted in what it will accept::
+``%s`` is restricted in what it will accept:
 
-  - input type supports ``Py_buffer`` [4]_?
-    use it to collect the necessary bytes
+- input type supports ``Py_buffer`` [4]_?
+  use it to collect the necessary bytes
 
-  - input type is something else?
-    use its ``__bytes__`` method [5]_ ; if there isn't one, raise a ``TypeError``
+- input type is something else?
+  use its ``__bytes__`` method [5]_ ; if there isn't one, raise a ``TypeError``
 
-Examples:
+Examples::
 
     >>> b'%s' % b'abc'
     b'abc'
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ Examples:
     TypeError: 'hello world' has no __bytes__ method, perhaps you need to encode it?
 
 .. note::
-
    Because the ``str`` type does not have a ``__bytes__`` method, attempts to
    directly use ``'a string'`` as a bytes interpolation value will raise an
    exception.  To use ``'string'`` values, they must be encoded or otherwise
@@ -116,21 +115,21 @@ format codes this idea was discarded.
 
 It has been suggested to use ``%b`` for bytes instead of ``%s``.
 
-  - Rejected as ``%b`` does not exist in Python 2.x %-interpolation, which is
-    why we are using ``%s``.
+- Rejected as ``%b`` does not exist in Python 2.x %-interpolation, which is
+  why we are using ``%s``.
 
 It has been proposed to automatically use ``.encode('ascii','strict')`` for
 ``str`` arguments to ``%s``.
 
-  - Rejected as this would lead to intermittent failures.  Better to have the
-    operation always fail so the trouble-spot can be correctly fixed.
+- Rejected as this would lead to intermittent failures.  Better to have the
+  operation always fail so the trouble-spot can be correctly fixed.
 
 It has been proposed to have ``%s`` return the ascii-encoded repr when the
 value is a ``str`` (b'%s' % 'abc'  --> b"'abc'").
 
-  - Rejected as this would lead to hard to debug failures far from the problem
-    site.  Better to have the operation always fail so the trouble-spot can be
-    easily fixed.
+- Rejected as this would lead to hard to debug failures far from the problem
+  site.  Better to have the operation always fail so the trouble-spot can be
+  easily fixed.
 
 Originally this PEP also proposed adding format style formatting, but it
 was decided that format and its related machinery were all strictly text