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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Bison supports the @N construction, which gives you access to
 the starting and ending line number and character number associated
 with any of the symbols in the current rule.
 
-Also, Bison supports the command `%expect N' which says not to mention
+Also, Bison supports the command '%expect N' which says not to mention
 the conflicts if there are N shift/reduce conflicts and no reduce/reduce
 conflicts.
 
@@ -20,11 +20,14 @@ Also, Bison uses a faster but less space-efficient encoding for the
 parse tables (see Corbett's PhD thesis from Berkeley, "Static
 Semantics in Compiler Error Recovery", June 1985, Report No. UCB/CSD
 85/251), and more modern technique for generating the lookahead sets.
-(See "Efficient Construction of LALR(1) Lookahead Sets" by F. DeRemer
-and A. Pennello, in ACM TOPLS Vol 4 No 4, October 1982.  Their
+(See Frank DeRemer and Thomas Pennello, "Efficient Computation of
+LALR(1) Look-Ahead Sets", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages
+and Systems (TOPLAS) 4, 4 (October 1982), 615-649.  Their
 technique is the standard one now.)
 
-       paul rubin
-       free software foundation
+        paul rubin
+        free software foundation
 
 
+[DeRemer-Pennello reference corrected by Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
+ 2004-06-21.]