doc: Formatting and typo fixes (GH-98974)

(cherry picked from commit 728e42fcf5)

Co-authored-by: jmcb <joelsgp@protonmail.com>

Doc/faq/windows.rst

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ How can I embed Python into a Windows application?
 
 Embedding the Python interpreter in a Windows app can be summarized as follows:
 
-1. Do _not_ build Python into your .exe file directly.  On Windows, Python must
+1. Do **not** build Python into your .exe file directly.  On Windows, Python must
    be a DLL to handle importing modules that are themselves DLL's.  (This is the
    first key undocumented fact.)  Instead, link to :file:`python{NN}.dll`; it is
    typically installed in ``C:\Windows\System``.  *NN* is the Python version, a
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Embedding the Python interpreter in a Windows app can be summarized as follows:
 2. If you use SWIG, it is easy to create a Python "extension module" that will
    make the app's data and methods available to Python.  SWIG will handle just
    about all the grungy details for you.  The result is C code that you link
-   *into* your .exe file (!)  You do _not_ have to create a DLL file, and this
+   *into* your .exe file (!)  You do **not** have to create a DLL file, and this
    also simplifies linking.
 
 3. SWIG will create an init function (a C function) whose name depends on the
@@ -218,10 +218,10 @@ Embedding the Python interpreter in a Windows app can be summarized as follows:
 5. There are two problems with Python's C API which will become apparent if you
    use a compiler other than MSVC, the compiler used to build pythonNN.dll.
 
-   Problem 1: The so-called "Very High Level" functions that take FILE *
+   Problem 1: The so-called "Very High Level" functions that take ``FILE *``
    arguments will not work in a multi-compiler environment because each
-   compiler's notion of a struct FILE will be different.  From an implementation
-   standpoint these are very _low_ level functions.
+   compiler's notion of a ``struct FILE`` will be different.  From an implementation
+   standpoint these are very low level functions.
 
    Problem 2: SWIG generates the following code when generating wrappers to void
    functions:

Doc/reference/grammar.rst

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ and `PEG <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar>`_.
 In particular, ``&`` followed by a symbol, token or parenthesized
 group indicates a positive lookahead (i.e., is required to match but
 not consumed), while ``!`` indicates a negative lookahead (i.e., is
-required _not_ to match).  We use the ``|`` separator to mean PEG's
+required *not* to match).  We use the ``|`` separator to mean PEG's
 "ordered choice" (written as ``/`` in traditional PEG grammars). See
 :pep:`617` for more details on the grammar's syntax.
 

Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst

@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ statement, of a variable or attribute annotation and an optional assignment stat
    annotated_assignment_stmt: `augtarget` ":" `expression`
                             : ["=" (`starred_expression` | `yield_expression`)]
 
-The difference from normal :ref:`assignment` is that only single target is allowed.
+The difference from normal :ref:`assignment` is that only a single target is allowed.
 
 For simple names as assignment targets, if in class or module scope,
 the annotations are evaluated and stored in a special class or module
@@ -365,8 +365,8 @@ target, then the interpreter evaluates the target except for the last
       IDEs.
 
 .. versionchanged:: 3.8
-   Now annotated assignments allow same expressions in the right hand side as
-   the regular assignments. Previously, some expressions (like un-parenthesized
+   Now annotated assignments allow the same expressions in the right hand side as
+   regular assignments. Previously, some expressions (like un-parenthesized
    tuple expressions) caused a syntax error.
 
 
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ commas) the two steps are carried out separately for each clause, just
 as though the clauses had been separated out into individual import
 statements.
 
-The details of the first step, finding and loading modules are described in
+The details of the first step, finding and loading modules, are described in
 greater detail in the section on the :ref:`import system <importsystem>`,
 which also describes the various types of packages and modules that can
 be imported, as well as all the hooks that can be used to customize