diff --git a/pd/doc/5.reference/all_about_rich_text.pd b/pd/doc/5.reference/all_about_rich_text.pd
index ef0b131d15ec4898c1c12b31ed6d0db5db3a0ae8..17b0b6e6c66c0f25207feb2d7a1055f10f471e5b 100644
--- a/pd/doc/5.reference/all_about_rich_text.pd
+++ b/pd/doc/5.reference/all_about_rich_text.pd
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 #N canvas 774 239 512 642 12;
-#X text 20 10 <h>Rich Text Formatting</h><#090><b>This</b> <#f69>is</#f69>
-<s>normal</s> <#039><u>rich</u> <#909>text</#909>.This <i>only</i>
+#X text 20 10 <h>Rich Text Formatting</h><=#090><b>This</b> <=#f69>is</=#f69>
+<s>normal</s> <=#039><u>rich</u> <=#909>text</=#909>.This <i>only</i>
 works in comments \, and uses special tags in the input text. Tags
 come in pairs \, as they do in HTML \, '<!tag>' begins and '<!/tag>'
 ends a specially formatted part of the text. Currently supported tags
 are:• <!h><h>header text</h><!/h>  Typeset in bold at 120% size.•
 <!b><b>bold text</b><!/b>• <!i><i>italic text</i><!/i>• <!u><u>underlined
-text</u><!/u>• <!s><s>strike-through text</s><!/s>• <!red><red>colored
-text</red><!/red>  The standard HTML color names and triplets can
-be used as tags.Obviously \, this won't replace your word processor
+text</u><!/u>• <!s><s>strike-through text</s><!/s>• <!=red><=red>colored
+text</=red><!/=red>  The standard HTML color names and triplets can
+be used as tags  if preceded by '='.Obviously \, this won't replace your word processor
 anytime soon \, and entering all the formatting tags can get a bit
 tedious. But at least it provides you with some useful formatting options.<b>NOTE:</b>
 This entire text is in a single comment object \, so you can click
diff --git a/pd/doc/5.reference/text-help.pd b/pd/doc/5.reference/text-help.pd
index c4f826118f242e2bd8fea1130dcc723096b7a743..2f2a9618c207b687e85bf51bbf36bda6f1f9b1ce 100644
--- a/pd/doc/5.reference/text-help.pd
+++ b/pd/doc/5.reference/text-help.pd
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ using explicit line breaks. E.g:Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet \, consetetur
 sadipscingelitr \, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut laboreet
 dolore magna aliquyam erat \, sed diam voluptua. Atvero eos et accusam
 et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.There are also some possibilities
-for <red><b>rich text formatting</b></red> \, please see the <b>"all_about_rich_text"</b>
+for <=red><b>rich text formatting</b></=red> \, please see the <b>"all_about_rich_text"</b>
 patch linked below for details., f 76;
 #X text 40 350 <b>NOTE:</b> Visual and rich text formatting of comments
 are Purr Data-specific features \, they will *not* work (and look funny)