diff --git a/docs/reference/ChangeLog b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
index 5559e23e4..ead47bfd3 100644
--- a/docs/reference/ChangeLog
+++ b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-05-30  Matthias Clasen  <maclas@gmx.de>
+
+	* glib/tmpl/string_utils.sgml: 
+	* glib/tmpl/threads.sgml: Small formatting fixes.
+
 2002-05-26  Matthias Clasen  <maclas@gmx.de>
 
 	* glib/tmpl/conversions.sgml: Add GIConv.
diff --git a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/string_utils.sgml b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/string_utils.sgml
index 0391d9bee..a7d97040a 100644
--- a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/string_utils.sgml
+++ b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/string_utils.sgml
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ The typical usage would be something like:
 <informalexample><programlisting>
   char buf[G_ASCII_DTOSTR_BUF_SIZE];
 
-  fprintf (out, "value=%s\n", g_ascii_dtostr (buf, sizeof (buf), value));
+  fprintf (out, "value=&percent;s\n", g_ascii_dtostr (buf, sizeof (buf), value));
 </programlisting></informalexample>
 </para>
 
diff --git a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/threads.sgml b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/threads.sgml
index 09fc9d638..f3b146e22 100644
--- a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/threads.sgml
+++ b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/threads.sgml
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ access. A first naive implementation would be:
     static GMutex * mutex = NULL;
 
     if (!mutex)
-      mutex = g_mutex_new ();
+      mutex = g_mutex_new (<!-- -->);
     g_mutex_lock (mutex);
     ret_val = current_number = calc_next_number (current_number); 
     g_mutex_unlock (mutex);