2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi
index 2ff73b08bdb..b6fda1cd807 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi
@@ -2369,7 +2369,7 @@ Draw a box with lines of width 1, in color @var{color}.
 @item @code{(:line-width @var{width} :color @var{color} :style @var{style})}
 This way you can explicitly specify all aspects of the box.  The value
 @var{width} specifies the width of the lines to draw; it defaults to
-1.  A negative width @var{-n} means to draw a line of width @var{n}
+1.  A negative width @minus{}@var{n} means to draw a line of width @var{n}
 whose top and bottom parts occupy the space of the underlying text,
 thus avoiding any increase in the character height.
 
diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
index 0cf527b6ac7..2e951d0d5d7 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ previous match.  If all these successive searches succeed, the
 function call succeeds, moving point and returning its new value.
 Otherwise the function call fails, with results depending on the value
 of @var{noerror}, as described above.  If @var{count} is a negative
-number -@var{n}, the search is done @var{n} times in the opposite
+number @minus{}@var{n}, the search is done @var{n} times in the opposite
 (backward) direction.
 @end deffn
 
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ previous match.  If all these successive searches succeed, the
 function call succeeds, moving point and returning its new value.
 Otherwise the function call fails, with results depending on the value
 of @var{noerror}, as described above.  If @var{count} is a negative
-number -@var{n}, the search is done @var{n} times in the opposite
+number @minus{}@var{n}, the search is done @var{n} times in the opposite
 (backward) direction.
 
 In the following example, point is initially before the @samp{T}.