diff --git a/ext/fts3/fts3.c b/ext/fts3/fts3.c
index 00a9d7ba6f..8eeec364fd 100644
--- a/ext/fts3/fts3.c
+++ b/ext/fts3/fts3.c
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@
 **       SQLite (in which case SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3 is defined).
 */
 
-/* TODO(shess) Consider exporting this comment to an HTML file or the
-** wiki.
-*/
 /* The full-text index is stored in a series of b+tree (-like)
 ** structures called segments which map terms to doclists.  The
 ** structures are like b+trees in layout, but are constructed from the
@@ -48,13 +45,27 @@
 ** 21 bits - BBA
 ** and so on.
 **
-** This is identical to how sqlite encodes varints (see util.c).
+** This is similar in concept to how sqlite encodes "varints" but
+** the encoding is not the same.  SQLite varints are big-endian
+** are are limited to 9 bytes in length whereas FTS3 varints are
+** little-endian and can be upt to 10 bytes in length (in theory).
+**
+** Example encodings:
+**
+**     1:    0x01
+**   127:    0x7f
+**   128:    0x81 0x00
 **
 **
 **** Document lists ****
 ** A doclist (document list) holds a docid-sorted list of hits for a
 ** given term.  Doclists hold docids, and can optionally associate
-** token positions and offsets with docids.
+** token positions and offsets with docids.  A position is the index
+** of a word within the document.  The first word of the document has
+** a position of 0.
+**
+** FTS3 used to optionally store character offsets using a compile-time
+** option.  But that functionality is no longer supported.
 **
 ** A DL_POSITIONS_OFFSETS doclist is stored like this:
 **
@@ -62,16 +73,12 @@
 **   varint docid;
 **   array {                (position list for column 0)
 **     varint position;     (delta from previous position plus POS_BASE)
-**     varint startOffset;  (delta from previous startOffset)
-**     varint endOffset;    (delta from startOffset)
 **   }
 **   array {
 **     varint POS_COLUMN;   (marks start of position list for new column)
 **     varint column;       (index of new column)
 **     array {
 **       varint position;   (delta from previous position plus POS_BASE)
-**       varint startOffset;(delta from previous startOffset)
-**       varint endOffset;  (delta from startOffset)
 **     }
 **   }
 **   varint POS_END;        (marks end of positions for this document.
@@ -79,10 +86,23 @@
 **
 ** Here, array { X } means zero or more occurrences of X, adjacent in
 ** memory.  A "position" is an index of a token in the token stream
-** generated by the tokenizer, while an "offset" is a byte offset,
-** both based at 0.  Note that POS_END and POS_COLUMN occur in the
-** same logical place as the position element, and act as sentinals
-** ending a position list array.
+** generated by the tokenizer. Note that POS_END and POS_COLUMN occur 
+** in the same logical place as the position element, and act as sentinals
+** ending a position list array.  POS_END is 0.  POS_COLUMN is 1.
+** The positions numbers are not stored literally but rather as two more
+** the difference from the prior position, or the just the position plus
+** 2 for the first position.  Example:
+**
+**   label:       A B C D E  F  G H   I  J K
+**   value:     123 5 9 1 1 14 35 0 234 72 0
+**
+** The 123 value is the first docid.  For column zero in this document
+** there are two matches at positions 3 and 10 (5-2 and 9-2+3).  The 1
+** at D signals the start of a new column; the 1 at E indicates that the
+** new column is column number 1.  There are two positions at 12 and 45
+** (14-2 and 35-2+12).  The 0 at H indicate the end-of-document.  The
+** 234 at I is the next docid.  It has one position 72 (72-2) and then
+** terminates with the 0 at K.
 **
 ** A DL_POSITIONS doclist omits the startOffset and endOffset
 ** information.  A DL_DOCIDS doclist omits both the position and
@@ -388,12 +408,23 @@ void sqlite3Fts3Dequote(char *z){
   }
 }
 
+/*
+** Read a single varint from the doclist at *pp and advance *pp to point
+** to the next element of the varlist.  Add the value of the varint
+** to *pVal.
+*/
 static void fts3GetDeltaVarint(char **pp, sqlite3_int64 *pVal){
   sqlite3_int64 iVal;
   *pp += sqlite3Fts3GetVarint(*pp, &iVal);
   *pVal += iVal;
 }
 
+/*
+** As long as *pp has not reached its end (pEnd), then do the same
+** as fts3GetDeltaVarint(): read a single varint and add it to *pVal.
+** But if we have reached the end of the varint, just set *pp=0 and
+** leave *pVal unchanged.
+*/
 static void fts3GetDeltaVarint2(char **pp, char *pEnd, sqlite3_int64 *pVal){
   if( *pp>=pEnd ){
     *pp = 0;
@@ -782,12 +813,6 @@ static int fts3OpenMethod(sqlite3_vtab *pVTab, sqlite3_vtab_cursor **ppCsr){
   return SQLITE_OK;
 }
 
-/****************************************************************/
-/****************************************************************/
-/****************************************************************/
-/****************************************************************/
-
-
 /*
 ** Close the cursor.  For additional information see the documentation
 ** on the xClose method of the virtual table interface.
diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 484deaaa1b..3b4bfa0175 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
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index d3a6f52e19..4cf410d54e 100644
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