diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-kernel-appendix.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-kernel-appendix.xml
index 533875b040..7ac349b6e3 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-kernel-appendix.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-kernel-appendix.xml
@@ -225,6 +225,8 @@
                     of cores your machine supports and set <filename>PARALLEL_MAKE</filename> to one and 
                     a half times the number of cores your machine supports.
                 </note>
+                </para>
+                <para>
                 The following two commands build the default <filename>qemux86</filename> image and 
                 <filename>source</filename> build environment setup script.
                 If necessary, the script creates the build directory:
@@ -551,7 +553,7 @@
         </section>
 
         <section id='examining-the-default-config-smp-behavior'>
-            <title>Examining the Default <filename>CONFIG_SMP</filename> Behavior</title>
+            <title>Examining the Default&nbsp;&nbsp;<filename>CONFIG_SMP</filename> Behavior</title>
 
             <para>
                 By default, <filename>CONFIG_SMP</filename> supports single processor machines.
@@ -578,7 +580,7 @@
         </section>
 
         <section id='changing-the-config-smp-configuration-using-menuconfig'>
-            <title>Changing the <filename>CONFIG_SMP</filename> Configuration Using <filename>menuconfig</filename></title>
+            <title>Changing the&nbsp;&nbsp;<filename>CONFIG_SMP</filename> Configuration Using&nbsp;&nbsp;<filename>menuconfig</filename></title>
 
             <para>
                 The <filename>menuconfig</filename> tool provides an interactive method with which
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml
index e9342d0786..b05babba49 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@
                 <note>When you have a local Linux Yocto kernel Git repository, you can 
                 reference that repository rather than the upstream Git repository as 
                 part of the <filename>clone</filename> command.
-                Doing so can speed up the process.</note>
-                In the following example, the bare clone is named 
+                Doing so can speed up the process.</note></para>
+                <para>In the following example, the bare clone is named 
                 <filename>linux-yocto-3.0.git</filename>, while the 
                 copy is named <filename>linux-yocto-3.0</filename>: 
                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>