diff --git a/pep-3118.txt b/pep-3118.txt
index 0a0bf3e0b..267e8fce6 100644
--- a/pep-3118.txt
+++ b/pep-3118.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 PEP: 3118
 Title: Revising the buffer protocol
 Version: $Revision$
@@ -192,7 +191,7 @@ PyBUF_SIMPLE
    This is the default flag state (0). The returned buffer may or may
    not have writeable memory.  The format will be assumed to be
    unsigned bytes .  This is a "stand-alone" flag constant.  It never
-   needs to be |'d to the others.  The exporter will raise an error if
+   needs to be \|'d to the others.  The exporter will raise an error if
    it cannot provide such a contiguous buffer of bytes.
 
 PyBUF_REQ_WRITEABLE
@@ -469,9 +468,8 @@ Return 1 if the getbuffer function is available otherwise 0.
 This is a C-API version of the getbuffer function call.  It checks to
 make sure object has the required function pointer and issues the
 call.  Returns -1 and raises an error on failure and returns 0 on
-success.
+success.::
 
-::
     int PyObject_ReleaseBuffer(PyObject *obj, PyBuffer *view)
 
 This is a C-API version of the releasebuffer function call.  It checks
@@ -527,12 +525,12 @@ __builtin__.memory
 
 Methods:
 
-  lock        
-  unlock
-  __getitem__  (will support multi-dimensional slicing)
-  __setitem__  (will support multi-dimensional slicing)  
-  tobytes      (obtain a bytes-object of everything in the memory).
-  tolist       (obtain a "nested" list of the memory.  Everything
+|  lock        
+|  unlock
+|  __getitem__  (will support multi-dimensional slicing)
+|  __setitem__  (will support multi-dimensional slicing)  
+|  tobytes      (obtain a bytes-object of everything in the memory).
+|  tolist       (obtain a "nested" list of the memory.  Everything
                 is interpreted into standard Python objects
                 as the struct module unpack would do). 
 
@@ -600,9 +598,8 @@ their work.
 
 Return 1 if the memory defined by the view object is C-style (fortran
 = 'C') or Fortran-style (fortran = 'F') contiguous or either one
-(fortran = 'A').  Return 0 otherwise.
+(fortran = 'A').  Return 0 otherwise.::
 
-::
     int PyBuffer_IsAligned(PyBuffer *view);
 
 Return 1 if the memory at all elements of the array implied by the
@@ -616,9 +613,8 @@ view object is aligned
 
 Fill the strides array with byte-strides of a contiguous (C-style if
 fortran is 0 or Fortran-style if fortran is 1) array of the given
-shape with the given number of bytes per element.
+shape with the given number of bytes per element.::
 
-::
     int PyBuffer_FillInfo(PyBuffer *view, void *buf, 
                           Py_ssize_t len, int readonly, int infoflags)
 
@@ -821,9 +817,7 @@ Examples
 Ex. 1
 -----------
 
-This example shows how an image object that uses contiguous lines might expose its buffer.::
-
-::
+This example shows how an image object that uses contiguous lines might expose its buffer::
 
   struct rgba {
       unsigned char r, g, b, a;
@@ -847,8 +841,6 @@ In order to access, say, the red value of the pixel at x=30, y=50, you'd use "li
 
 So what does ImageObject's getbuffer do?  Leaving error checking out::
 
-::
-
   int Image_getbuffer(PyObject *self, PyBuffer *view, int flags) {
 
       static Py_ssize_t suboffsets[2] = { -1, 0 };
@@ -899,9 +891,9 @@ alive) would do that.
       return PyObject_FillBufferInfo(view, buf, len, readonly, flags);    
   }
 
-/* No releasebuffer is necessary because the memory will never 
-be re-allocated so the locking mechanism is not needed
-*/
+  /* No releasebuffer is necessary because the memory will never 
+     be re-allocated so the locking mechanism is not needed
+  */
 
 Ex.  3
 -----------