diff --git a/collects/scribblings/guide/binding.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/guide/binding.scrbl
index f830feb56f..66d6cd4ca9 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/guide/binding.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/guide/binding.scrbl
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ procedure that creates a pair, @scheme[car] refers to the procedure
 that extracts the first element of a pair, and so on.
 
 @margin-note{For information on the syntax of identifiers, see
-@secref["symbols"].}
+@secref["guide:symbols"].}
 
 Forms like @scheme[define], @scheme[lambda], and @scheme[let]
 associate a meaning with one or more identifiers; that is, they
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/guide/byte-strings.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/guide/byte-strings.scrbl
index f658ff29c9..bb27533431 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/guide/byte-strings.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/guide/byte-strings.scrbl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 @require[(lib "eval.ss" "scribble")]
 @require["guide-utils.ss"]
 
-@title[#:tag "bytes"]{Bytes and Byte Strings}
+@title[#:tag "guide:bytestrings"]{Bytes and Byte Strings}
 
 A @defterm{byte} is an inexact integer between @scheme[0] and
 @scheme[255], inclusive. The @scheme[byte?] predicate recognizes
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ numbers that represent bytes.
 ]
 
 A @defterm{byte string} is similar to a string---see
-@secref["strings"]---but its content is a sequence of bytes instead of
-characters. Byte strings can be used in applications that process pure
-ASCII instead of Unicode text. The printed and form of a byte string
-supports such uses in particular, because a byte string prints like
-the ASCII decoding of the byte string, but prefixed with a
+@secref["guide:strings"]---but its content is a sequence of bytes
+instead of characters. Byte strings can be used in applications that
+process pure ASCII instead of Unicode text. The printed and form of a
+byte string supports such uses in particular, because a byte string
+prints like the ASCII decoding of the byte string, but prefixed with a
 @schemefont{#}. Unprintable ASCII characters or non-ASCII bytes in the
 byte string are written with octal notation.
 
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/guide/char-strings.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/guide/char-strings.scrbl
index 7569366bab..0227ae1d37 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/guide/char-strings.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/guide/char-strings.scrbl
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 @require[(lib "eval.ss" "scribble")]
 @require["guide-utils.ss"]
 
-@title[#:tag "strings"]{Strings (Unicode)}
+@title[#:tag "guide:strings"]{Strings (Unicode)}
 
 A @defterm{string} is a fixed-length array of
-@seclink["characters"]{characters}. It prints using doublequotes,
+@seclink["guide:characters"]{characters}. It prints using doublequotes,
 where doublequote and backslash characters within the string are
 escaped with backslashes. Other common string escapes are supported,
 incluing @schemefont["\\n"] for a linefeed, @schemefont["\\r"] for a
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ for an end user.
 ]
 
 For working with plain ASCII, working with raw bytes, or
-encoding/decoding Unicode strings as bytes, use @seclink["bytes"]{byte
-strings}.
+encoding/decoding Unicode strings as bytes, use
+@seclink["guide:bytestrings"]{byte strings}.
 
 @refdetails["mz:strings"]{strings and string procedures}
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/guide/chars.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/guide/chars.scrbl
index ed887344f4..50678f12e2 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/guide/chars.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/guide/chars.scrbl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 @require[(lib "eval.ss" "scribble")]
 @require["guide-utils.ss"]
 
-@title[#:tag "characters"]{Characters}
+@title[#:tag "guide:characters"]{Characters}
 
 A Scheme @defterm{character} corresponds to a Unicode @defterm{scalar
 value}. Roughly, a scalar value is an unsigned integer whose
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/guide/numbers.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/guide/numbers.scrbl
index ca64be406b..2ac728c45a 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/guide/numbers.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/guide/numbers.scrbl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 @require[(lib "eval.ss" "scribble")]
 @require["guide-utils.ss"]
 
-@title{Numbers}
+@title[#:tag "guide:numbers"]{Numbers}
 
 A Scheme @defterm{number} is either exact or inexact:
 
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/guide/symbols.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/guide/symbols.scrbl
index 78841aeabf..a3d6b51939 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/guide/symbols.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/guide/symbols.scrbl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 @require[(lib "eval.ss" "scribble")]
 @require["guide-utils.ss"]
 
-@title[#:tag "symbols"]{Symbols}
+@title[#:tag "guide:symbols"]{Symbols}
 
 A @defterm{symbol} is an atomic value that prints like an identifier.
 An expression that starts with @litchar{'} and continues with an
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/reference/bytes.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/reference/bytes.scrbl
index 9aa39483b1..2dda82a72e 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/reference/bytes.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/reference/bytes.scrbl
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 @title[#:tag "mz:bytestrings"]{Byte Strings}
 
+@guideintro["guide:bytestrings"]{byte strings}
+
 A @pidefterm{byte string} is a fixed-length arary of bytes. A
  @pidefterm{byte} is an exact integer between @scheme[0] and
  @scheme[255] inclusive.
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/reference/chars.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/reference/chars.scrbl
index 03e08958e9..0ee49a609e 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/reference/chars.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/reference/chars.scrbl
@@ -3,5 +3,7 @@
 
 @title[#:tag "mz:characters"]{Characters}
 
+@guideintro["guide:characters"]{characters}
+
 A @pidefterm{character} corresponds to a Unicode scalar value (i.e., a
 Unicode code point that is not a surrogate).
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/reference/data.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/reference/data.scrbl
index b725d52dfa..1cf901d834 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/reference/data.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/reference/data.scrbl
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ is @scheme[#t] or @scheme[#f], @scheme[#f] otherwise.}
 @; ------------------------------------------------------------
 @section[#:tag "symbols"]{Symbols}
 
+@guideintro["guide:symbols"]{symbols}
+
 A symbol is like an immutable string, but symbols are normally
 @index["interned symbols"]{@defterm{interned}}, so that two symbols
 with the same character content are normally @scheme[eq?]. All symbols
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/reference/numbers.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/reference/numbers.scrbl
index 33892b86fe..0edb55664e 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/reference/numbers.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/reference/numbers.scrbl
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 @title[#:tag "mz:numbers"]{Numbers}
 
+@guideintro["guide:numbers"]{numbers}
+
 All numbers are @idefterm{complex numbers}. Some of them are
 @idefterm{real numbers}, and all of the real numbers that can be
 represented are also @idefterm{rational numbers}. Among the real
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/reference/read.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/reference/read.scrbl
index 90240479fe..01ab0da6a7 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/reference/read.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/reference/read.scrbl
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ on the next character or characters in the input stream as follows:
 
 @section[#:tag "mz:parse-symbol"]{Reading Symbols}
 
+@guideintro["guide:symbols"]{the syntax of symbols}
+
 A sequence that does not start with a delimiter or @litchar{#} is
 parsed as either a symbol or a number (see @secref["mz:parse-number"]),
 except that @litchar{.} by itself is never parsed as a symbol or
@@ -185,6 +187,8 @@ the following datum in case-sensitive mode.
 
 @section[#:tag "mz:parse-number"]{Reading Numbers}
 
+@guideintro["guide:numbers"]{the syntax of numbers}
+
 @index['("numbers" "parsing")]{A} sequence that does not start with a
 delimiter is parsed as a number when it matches the following grammar
 case-insenstively for @nonterm{number@sub{10}} (decimal), where
@@ -348,6 +352,8 @@ then when then reader encounters @litchar["{"] and @litchar["}"], the
 
 @section[#:tag "mz:parse-string"]{Reading Strings}
 
+@guideintro["guide:strings"]{the syntax of strings}
+
 @index['("strings" "parsing")]{When} the reader encouters
 @as-index{@litchar{"}}, it begins parsing characters to form a string. The
 string continues until it is terminated by another @litchar{"} (that
@@ -412,9 +418,11 @@ Within a string sequence, the following escape sequences are
 
 }
 
-If the reader encounteres any other use of a backslashe in a string
+If the reader encounteres any other use of a backslash in a string
 constant, the @exnraise[exn:fail:read].
 
+@guideintro["guide:bytestrings"]{the syntax of byte strings}
+
 @index['("byte strings" "parsing")]{A} string constant preceded by
 @litchar{#} is parsed as a byte-string. (That is, @as-index{@litchar{#"}} starts
 a byte-string literal.) See @secref["mz:bytestrings"] for
@@ -578,6 +586,8 @@ content is also wraped as a syntax object.
 
 @section[#:tag "mz:parse-character"]{Reading Characters}
 
+@guideintro["guide:characters"]{the syntax of characters}
+
 A @litchar["#\\"] starts a character constant, which has one of the
 following forms:
 
diff --git a/collects/scribblings/reference/strings.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/reference/strings.scrbl
index 245d24a22f..229bde42b9 100644
--- a/collects/scribblings/reference/strings.scrbl
+++ b/collects/scribblings/reference/strings.scrbl
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 @title[#:tag "mz:strings"]{Strings}
 
+@guideintro["guide:string"]{strings}
+
 A @pidefterm{string} is a fixed-length arary of
 @seclink["characters"]{characters}.