--- a/doc/interpreter/sparse.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/sparse.txi
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 @table @asis
 @item Returned from a function
 There are many functions that directly return sparse matrices. These include
-@dfn{speye}, @dfn{sprand}, @dfn{spdiag}, etc.
+@dfn{speye}, @dfn{sprand}, @dfn{diag}, etc.
 @item Constructed from matrices or vectors
 The function @dfn{sparse} allows a sparse matrix to be constructed from 
 three vectors representing the row, column and data. Alternatively, the
@@ -202,22 +202,17 @@
 elements of @var{d}.
 
 Other functions of interest that directly create sparse matrices, are
-@dfn{spdiag} or its generalization @dfn{spdiags}, that can take the
+@dfn{diag} or its generalization @dfn{spdiags}, that can take the
 definition of the diagonals of the matrix and create the sparse matrix 
 that corresponds to this. For example
 
 @example
-s = spdiag (sparse(randn(1,n)), -1);
+s = diag (sparse(randn(1,n)), -1);
 @end example
 
 creates a sparse (@var{n}+1)-by-(@var{n}+1) sparse matrix with a single
 diagonal defined.
 
-@DOCSTRING(spcumprod)
-
-@DOCSTRING(spcumsum)
-
-@DOCSTRING(spdiag)
 
 @DOCSTRING(spdiags)
 
@@ -231,18 +226,12 @@
 
 @DOCSTRING(spones)
 
-@DOCSTRING(spprod)
-
 @DOCSTRING(sprand)
 
 @DOCSTRING(sprandn)
 
 @DOCSTRING(sprandsym)
 
-@DOCSTRING(spsum)
-
-@DOCSTRING(spsumsq)
-
 The recommended way for the user to create a sparse matrix, is to create 
 two vectors containing the row and column index of the data and a third
 vector of the same size containing the data to be stored. For example
@@ -484,10 +473,7 @@
   @dfn{dmperm}, @dfn{symamd}, @dfn{randperm}, @dfn{symrcm}
 
 @item Linear algebra:
-  @dfn{matrix_type}, @dfn{spchol}, @dfn{cpcholinv}, 
-  @dfn{spchol2inv}, @dfn{spinv},
-  @dfn{splchol}, @dfn{splu}, @dfn{normest}, @dfn{condest},
-  @dfn{sprank}
+  @dfn{matrix_type}, @dfn{normest}, @dfn{condest}, @dfn{sprank}
 @c @dfn{spaugment}
 @c @dfn{eigs}, @dfn{svds} but these are in octave-forge for now
 
@@ -497,9 +483,7 @@
 @c @dfn{lsqr}, @dfn{minres}, @dfn{qmr}, @dfn{symmlq}
 
 @item Miscellaneous:
-  @dfn{spparms}, @dfn{symbfact}, @dfn{spstats}, 
-  @dfn{spprod}, @dfn{spcumsum}, @dfn{spsum},
-  @dfn{spsumsq}, @dfn{spdiag}
+  @dfn{spparms}, @dfn{symbfact}, @dfn{spstats}
 @end table
 
 In addition all of the standard Octave mapper functions (ie. basic
@@ -833,18 +817,6 @@
 
 @DOCSTRING(condest)
 
-@DOCSTRING(spchol)
-
-@DOCSTRING(spcholinv)
-
-@DOCSTRING(spchol2inv)
-
-@DOCSTRING(spinv)
-
-@DOCSTRING(splchol)
-
-@DOCSTRING(splu)
-
 @DOCSTRING(spparms)
 
 @DOCSTRING(sprank)