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diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
index 4954568086..831ef1c22a 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
@@ -87,9 +87,10 @@
<name name="deep_list"/>
</datatype>
<datatype>
- <name><marker id="type-fd">fd()</marker></name>
+ <name>fd()</name>
<desc>
- <p>A file descriptor representing a file opened in <seealso
+ <p><marker id="type-fd"/>
+ A file descriptor representing a file opened in <seealso
marker="#raw">raw</seealso> mode.</p>
</desc>
</datatype>
@@ -491,7 +492,7 @@
<name name="list_dir" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>List files in a directory</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Lists all files in a directory, <b>except</b> files
+ <p>Lists all files in a directory, <em>except</em> files
with "raw" names. Returns
<c>{ok, <anno>Filenames</anno>}</c> if successful.
Otherwise, it returns <c>{error, <anno>Reason</anno>}</c>.
@@ -1193,8 +1194,8 @@
and <c>read_line/1</c> are the only ways to read from a file
opened in raw mode (although they work for normally opened
files, too).</p>
- <p>For files where <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, one character might be represented by more than one byte on the file. The parameter <c>Number</c> always denotes the number of <em>characters</em> read from the file, why the position in the file might be moved a lot more than this number when reading a Unicode file.</p>
- <p>Also if <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, the <c>read/3</c> call will fail if the data contains characters larger than 255, why the <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io(3)</seealso> module is to be preferred when reading such a file.</p>
+ <p>For files where <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, one character might be represented by more than one byte on the file. The parameter <c>Number</c> always denotes the number of <em>characters</em> read from the file, while the position in the file might be moved much more than this number when reading a Unicode file.</p>
+ <p>Also, if <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, the <c>read/3</c> call will fail if the data contains characters larger than 255, which is why the <seealso marker="stdlib:io">io(3)</seealso> module is to be preferred when reading such a file.</p>
<p>The function returns:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>{ok, <anno>Data</anno>}</c></tag>
@@ -1307,15 +1308,15 @@
<item>
<p>The current system access to the file.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>atime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
+ <tag><c>atime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
<item>
<p>The last time the file was read.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>mtime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
+ <tag><c>mtime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
<item>
<p>The last time the file was written.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>ctime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >=0</c></tag>
+ <tag><c>ctime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >=0</c></tag>
<item>
<p>The interpretation of this time field depends on
the operating system. On Unix, it is the last time
@@ -1745,7 +1746,7 @@
See <seealso marker="gen_tcp#controlling_process-2">gen_tcp:controlling_process/2</seealso></p>
<p>If the OS used does not support sendfile, an Erlang fallback
using file:read and gen_tcp:send is used.</p>
- <p>The option list can contain the following options:
+ <p>The option list can contain the following options:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>chunk_size</c></tag>
<item>The chunk size used by the erlang fallback to send
@@ -1760,7 +1761,6 @@
the sendfile call will return <c>{error,einval}</c>.
Introduced in Erlang/OTP 17.0. Default is false.</item>
</taglist>
- </p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -1851,22 +1851,21 @@
Type <c>local</c> will interpret the time set as local, <c>universal</c> will
interpret it as universal time and <c>posix</c> must be seconds since
or before unix time epoch which is 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC.
- Default is <c>{time, local}</c>.
+ Default is <c>{time, local}</c>.</p>
<p>If the <c>raw</c> option is set, the file server will not be called
and only informations about local files will be returned.</p>
- </p>
<p>The following fields are used from the record, if they are
given.</p>
<taglist>
- <tag><c>atime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
+ <tag><c>atime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
<item>
<p>The last time the file was read.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>mtime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
+ <tag><c>mtime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
<item>
<p>The last time the file was written.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>ctime = <seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
+ <tag><c>ctime = </c><seealso marker="#type-date_time">date_time()</seealso><c> | integer() >= 0</c></tag>
<item>
<p>On Unix, any value give for this field will be ignored
(the "ctime" for the file will be set to the current