diff --git a/manuskript/exporter/manuskript/HTML.py b/manuskript/exporter/manuskript/HTML.py
index adb0523..02cd6f2 100644
--- a/manuskript/exporter/manuskript/HTML.py
+++ b/manuskript/exporter/manuskript/HTML.py
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ except ImportError:
 
 class HTML(markdown):
     name = "HTML"
-    description = qApp.translate("Export", "Basic HTML output using python module 'markdown'.")
-    InvalidBecause = qApp.translate("Export", "python module 'markdown'.")
+    description = qApp.translate("Export", "Basic HTML output using the Python module 'markdown'.")
+    InvalidBecause = qApp.translate("Export", "Python module 'markdown'.")
     icon = "text-html"
 
     exportVarName = "lastManuskriptHTML"
diff --git a/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/PDF.py b/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/PDF.py
index ac1551d..cbb135c 100644
--- a/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/PDF.py
+++ b/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/PDF.py
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ class PDF(abstractOutput):
     """PDF Viewer using PDF.js. Cf. https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Setup-PDF.js-in-a-website"""
 
     name = "PDF"
-    description = qApp.translate("Export", "Needs latex to be installed.")
-    InvalidBecause = qApp.translate("Export", """a valid latex installation. See pandoc recommendations on:
-                     <a href="http://pandoc.org/installing.html">http://pandoc.org/installing.html</a>. If you want unicode support, you need xelatex.""")
+    description = qApp.translate("Export", "Needs LaTeX to be installed.")
+    InvalidBecause = qApp.translate("Export", """a valid LaTeX installation. Pandoc recommendations can be found on:
+                     <a href="https://pandoc.org/installing.html">pandoc.org/installing.html</a>. If you want Unicode support, you need XeLaTeX.""")
     icon = "application-pdf"
 
     exportVarName = "lastPandocPDF"
diff --git a/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/abstractPlainText.py b/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/abstractPlainText.py
index e43862d..27479a5 100644
--- a/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/abstractPlainText.py
+++ b/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/abstractPlainText.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class pandocSettings(markdownSettings):
         "atx":          pandocSetting("--atx-headers", "checkbox", "markdown asciidoc",
                                     qApp.translate("Export", "Use ATX-style headers")),
         "self-contained": pandocSetting("--self-contained", "checkbox", "html",
-                                        qApp.translate("Export", "Self-contained html files, with no dependencies")),
+                                        qApp.translate("Export", "Self-contained HTML files, with no dependencies")),
         "q-tags":       pandocSetting("--html-q-tags", "checkbox", "html",
                                         qApp.translate("Export", "Use <q> tags for quotes in HTML")),
         "latex-engine": pandocSetting("--latex-engine=", "combo", "pdf",
diff --git a/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/plainText.py b/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/plainText.py
index 6367877..501789b 100644
--- a/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/plainText.py
+++ b/manuskript/exporter/pandoc/plainText.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ class markdown(abstractPlainText):
 
 class reST(abstractPlainText):
     name = "reST"
-    description = qApp.translate("Export", """reStructuredText is a lightweight markup language...""")
+    description = qApp.translate("Export", """reStructuredText is a lightweight markup language.""")
 
     exportVarName = "lastPandocreST"
     toFormat = "rst"