--- a/scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-10-23  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* strings/untabify.m, strings/strjust.m, io/strread.m:
+	Docstring fixes.
+
 2010-10-23  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
 	* statistics/distributions/nbinrnd.m: Use | instead of || in

--- a/scripts/io/strread.m
+++ b/scripts/io/strread.m
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
 ## @deftypefn  {Function File} {[@var{a}, @dots{}] =} strread (@var{str})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{a}, @dots{}] =} strread (@var{str}, @var{format})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{a}, @dots{}] =} strread (@var{str}, @var{format}, @
-## @var{prop1}, @var{value1}, @dots{})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{a}, @dots{}] =} strread (@var{str}, @var{format}, @var{prop1}, @var{value1}, @dots{})
 ## Read data from a string.
 ##
 ## The string @var{str} is split into words that are repeatedly matched to the
@@ -95,7 +94,7 @@
 ##
 ## @item "emptyvalue"
 ## Parts of the output where no word is available is filled with @var{value}.
-## @end itemize
+## @end table
 ##
 ## @seealso{textread, load, dlmread, fscanf}
 ## @end deftypefn

--- a/scripts/strings/strjust.m
+++ b/scripts/strings/strjust.m
@@ -18,15 +18,10 @@
 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Function File} strjust (@var{s})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} strjust (@var{s}, "right")
-## Returns the text, S, justified to the right.
-##
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} strjust (@var{s}, "left")
-## Returns left justified text.
-##
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} strjust (@var{s}, "center")
-## Returns center justified text.
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} strjust (@var{s}, @var{pos})
+## Return the text, @var{s}, justified according to @var{pos}, which may
+## be @samp{"left"}, @samp{"center"}, or @samp{"right"}.  If @var{pos}
+## is omitted, @samp{"right"} is assumed. 
 ##
 ## Null characters are replaced by spaces. All other character
 ## data are treated as non-white space.

--- a/scripts/strings/untabify.m
+++ b/scripts/strings/untabify.m
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn  {Function file} untabify (@var{t})
-## @deftypefnx {Function file} untabify (@var{t}, @var{tw})
-## @deftypefnx {Function file} untabify (@var{t}, @var{tw}, @var{deblank})
+## @deftypefn  {Function file} {} untabify (@var{t})
+## @deftypefnx {Function file} {} untabify (@var{t}, @var{tw})
+## @deftypefnx {Function file} {} untabify (@var{t}, @var{tw}, @var{deblank})
 ## Replace TAB characters in @var{t}, with spaces.
 ## The tab width is specified by @var{tw}, or defaults to eight.
 ## The input, @var{t}, may be either a 2D character array, or a cell