diff --git a/poky/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst b/poky/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst
index 016577e..83339da 100644
--- a/poky/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst
+++ b/poky/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Local projects are custom bits of software the user provides. These bits
-reside somewhere local to a project - perhaps a directory into which the
+reside somewhere local to a project --- perhaps a directory into which the
 user checks in items (e.g. a local directory containing a development
 source tree used by the group).
 
@@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@
 
 To complicate the problem, there are things that should not be included
 in the checksum. First, there is the actual specific build path of a
-given task - the :term:`WORKDIR`. It
+given task --- the :term:`WORKDIR`. It
 does not matter if the work directory changes because it should not
 affect the output for target packages. Also, the build process has the
 objective of making native or cross packages relocatable.
@@ -1700,7 +1700,7 @@
 Thus far, this section has limited discussion to the direct inputs into
 a task. Information based on direct inputs is referred to as the
 "basehash" in the code. However, the question of a task's indirect
-inputs still exits - items already built and present in the
+inputs still exits --- items already built and present in the
 :term:`Build Directory`. The checksum (or
 signature) for a particular task needs to add the hashes of all the
 tasks on which the particular task depends. Choosing which dependencies
diff --git a/poky/documentation/overview-manual/development-environment.rst b/poky/documentation/overview-manual/development-environment.rst
index f1001e0..43a6f1b 100644
--- a/poky/documentation/overview-manual/development-environment.rst
+++ b/poky/documentation/overview-manual/development-environment.rst
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 using the Yocto Project. Because the goal of the Yocto Project is to
 develop images or applications that run on embedded hardware,
 development of those images and applications generally takes place on a
-system not intended to run the software - the development host.
+system not intended to run the software --- the development host.
 
 You need to set up a development host in order to use it with the Yocto
 Project. Most find that it is best to have a native Linux machine
diff --git a/poky/documentation/overview-manual/yp-intro.rst b/poky/documentation/overview-manual/yp-intro.rst
index a2e0862..4e3b7c3 100644
--- a/poky/documentation/overview-manual/yp-intro.rst
+++ b/poky/documentation/overview-manual/yp-intro.rst
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@
    distribution.
 
    Another point worth noting is that historically within the Yocto
-   Project, recipes were referred to as packages - thus, the existence
+   Project, recipes were referred to as packages --- thus, the existence
    of several BitBake variables that are seemingly mis-named, (e.g.
    :term:`PR`,
    :term:`PV`, and