diff --git a/HOWTO-port-ellipt.txt b/HOWTO-port-ellipt.txt
index 7dfde21f40d9b9b2dfb4d7f7a163767377e62183..ac04d1f869c6d60c5486d4069d93cec0d5e60af4 100644
--- a/HOWTO-port-ellipt.txt
+++ b/HOWTO-port-ellipt.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ ALBERTA such that it compiles when copied to the new demo-package:
   DIM_OF_WORLD == mesh->dim. DIM_OF_WORLD is still fixed; there are
   distinct ALBERTA-libraries for each supported value of DIM_OF_WORLD.
 
-- There are some new type-definitions, e.g. 'REAL_BD Lambda' it is
+- There are some new type-definitions, e.g. 'REAL_BD Lambda'; it is
   equivalent to 'REAL_D Lambda[N_LAMBDA_MAX]'.
 
 - The function `init_element()' has to be a `bool'-function, instead
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ ALBERTA such that it compiles when copied to the new demo-package:
   a curved element, and `false' otherwise. For the standard case one
   should simply return `false'.
 
-- As above mentioned there exists new types for barycentric coordinates, 
+- As mentioned above, there exists new types for barycentric coordinates, 
   so you may want to change, e.g., the function 'LALt' like this:
 
 const REAL_B *LALt(const EL_INFO *el_info, const QUAD *quad, 
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ const REAL_B *LALt(const EL_INFO *el_info, const QUAD *quad,
   DOF_MATRIX and EL_MATRIX_INFO structures. In effect this means: the
   old DOF_MATRIX etc. structures have been deleted, and the old
   DOWB_... stuff has been renamed to old non-block names (Note: in the
-  vanilla v1.2 version there was no block-matrix support).
+  vanilla v1.2 version there was no block-matrix support at all).
   
   Another change in the OPERATOR_INFO structure is caused by the
   changed treatment of boundary conditions: