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diff --git a/doc/concepts.tex b/doc/concepts.tex
index 8067739..64f6320 100644
--- a/doc/concepts.tex
+++ b/doc/concepts.tex
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ slots.  If you want to hide implementation details, the best approach is to
 stash them in a dynamically allocated private structure, and leave a pointer
 to it in a slot.  (This will also help preserve binary compatibility, because
 the private structure can grow more members as needed.  See
-\xref{sec:fixme.compatibility} for more details.
+\xref{sec:fixme.compatibility} for more details.)
 
 \subsubsection{Vtables}
 
@@ -291,8 +291,8 @@ doesn't define any messages, so it doesn't have any methods.  In Sod, a class
 slot containing a function pointer is not at all the same thing as a method.)
 
 \subsubsection{Conversions}
-Suppose one has a value of type pointer to class type of some class~$C$, and
-wants to convert it to a pointer to class type of some other class~$B$.
+Suppose one has a value of type pointer-to-class-type for some class~$C$, and
+wants to convert it to a pointer-to-class-type for some other class~$B$.
 There are three main cases to distinguish.
 \begin{itemize}
 \item If $B$ is a superclass of~$C$, in the same chain, then the conversion
@@ -308,13 +308,13 @@ There are three main cases to distinguish.
   pointer.  The conversion can be performed using the appropriate generated
   upcast macro (see below); the general case is handled by the macro
   \descref{SOD_XCHAIN}{mac}.
-\item If $B$ is a subclass of~$C$ then the conversion is an \emph{upcast};
+\item If $B$ is a subclass of~$C$ then the conversion is a \emph{downcast};
   otherwise the conversion is a~\emph{cross-cast}.  In either case, the
   conversion can fail: the object in question might not be an instance of~$B$
-  at all.  The macro \descref{SOD_CONVERT}{mac} and the function
+  after all.  The macro \descref{SOD_CONVERT}{mac} and the function
   \descref{sod_convert}{fun} perform general conversions.  They return a null
   pointer if the conversion fails.  (There are therefore your analogue to the
-  \Cplusplus @|dynamic_cast<>| operator.)
+  \Cplusplus\ @|dynamic_cast<>| operator.)
 \end{itemize}
 The Sod translator generates macros for performing both in-chain and
 cross-chain upcasts.  For each class~$C$, and each proper superclass~$B$