diff --git a/zim.cc b/zim.cc
index 2c8fabe6..cb2359f8 100644
--- a/zim.cc
+++ b/zim.cc
@@ -747,7 +747,6 @@ string ZimDictionary::convert( const string & in )
   text.replace( QRegularExpression( "<\\s*a\\s+(class=\"external\"\\s+|)href=" + urlWiki ),
                 QString( "<a href=\"gdlookup://localhost/\\6\"" ) );
 
-
   // pattern <a href="..." ...>, excluding any known protocols such as http://, mailto:, #(comment)
   // these links will be translated into local definitions
   // <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=../dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/0994.html">
@@ -771,7 +770,6 @@ string ZimDictionary::convert( const string & in )
     if ( !list[4].isEmpty() )  // a title, ex: title="Precambrian/Chaotian"
       tag = list[4].split("\"")[1];
 
-
     // Check type of links inside articles
     if( linksType == UNKNOWN && tag.indexOf( '/' ) >= 0 )
     {
@@ -824,7 +822,6 @@ string ZimDictionary::convert( const string & in )
   }
   newText.clear();
 
-
   // Occasionally words needs to be displayed in vertical, but <br/> were changed to <br\> somewhere
   // proper style: <a href="gdlookup://localhost/Neoptera" ... >N<br/>e<br/>o<br/>p<br/>t<br/>e<br/>r<br/>a</a>
   QRegularExpression rxBR( "(<a href=\"gdlookup://localhost/[^\"]*\"\\s*[^>]*>)\\s*((\\w\\s*&lt;br(\\\\|/|)&gt;\\s*)+\\w)\\s*</a>",
@@ -1287,7 +1284,6 @@ void ZimArticleRequest::run()
 
   string result;
 
-  // See Issue #271: A mechanism to clean-up invalid HTML cards.
   // leave the invalid tags at the mercy of modern browsers.(webengine chrome)
   // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#an-introduction-to-error-handling-and-strange-cases-in-the-parser
   // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_soup#HTML5
@@ -1504,7 +1500,6 @@ vector< sptr< Dictionary::Class > > makeDictionaries(
         continue;
 
       // Got the file -- check if we need to rebuid the index
-
       ZimFile df( firstName );
 
       vector< string > dictFiles;
@@ -1521,7 +1516,6 @@ vector< sptr< Dictionary::Class > > makeDictionaries(
         {
           gdDebug( "Zim: Building the index for dictionary: %s\n", i->c_str() );
 
-
           unsigned articleCount = 0;
           unsigned wordCount = 0;