diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/QPrefPlaintextUi.ui b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/QPrefPlaintextUi.ui
index 338f33e167..cc8d164a78 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/QPrefPlaintextUi.ui
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/QPrefPlaintextUi.ui
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
        <item>
         <widget class="QSpinBox" name="plaintextLinelengthSB" >
          <property name="toolTip" >
-          <string>Max. line length of exported plain text/LaTeX/SGML files. If set to 0, paragraphs are output in a single line; if the line length is > 0, paragraphs are separated by a blank line.</string>
+          <string>The maximum line length of exported plain text/LaTeX/SGML files. If set to 0, paragraphs are output in a single line; if the line length is > 0, paragraphs are separated by a blank line.</string>
          </property>
          <property name="maximum" >
           <number>120</number>
diff --git a/src/lyxrc.C b/src/lyxrc.C
index 90cc102362..8208bb2103 100644
--- a/src/lyxrc.C
+++ b/src/lyxrc.C
@@ -2178,7 +2178,7 @@ string const LyXRC::getDescription(LyXRCTags tag)
 		break;
 
 	case RC_PLAINTEXT_LINELEN:
-		str = _("This is the maximum line length of an exported text file (LaTeX, SGML or plain text). If set to 0, paragraphs are output in a single line; if the line length is != 0, paragraphs are separated by a blank line.");
+		str = _("The maximum line length of exported plain text/LaTeX/SGML files. If set to 0, paragraphs are output in a single line; if the line length is > 0, paragraphs are separated by a blank line.");
 		break;
 
 	case RC_AUTOREGIONDELETE:
diff --git a/src/output_plaintext.C b/src/output_plaintext.C
index 0adf86779e..4ffc0c6553 100644
--- a/src/output_plaintext.C
+++ b/src/output_plaintext.C
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ void writePlaintextParagraph(Buffer const & buf,
 
 	/* what about the alignment */
 
-	// runparams.linelen <= 0 is special and means we don't have paragraph breaks
+	// runparams.linelen == 0 is special and means we don't have paragraph breaks
 
 	string::size_type currlinelen = 0;