docs(guide/forms): improve readability and formatting

Author: btford

docs/content/guide/forms.ngdoc

@@ -268,19 +268,23 @@ This example shows how to debounce model changes. Model will be updated only 250
 
 # Custom Validation
 
-Angular provides basic implementation for most common html5 {@link ng.directive:input input}
+Angular provides basic implementation for most common HTML5 {@link ng.directive:input input}
 types: ({@link input[text] text}, {@link input[number] number}, {@link input[url] url}, {@link input[email] email}, {@link input[radio] radio}, {@link input[checkbox] checkbox}), as well as some directives for validation (`required`, `pattern`, `minlength`, `maxlength`, `min`, `max`).
 
-Defining your own validator can be done by defining your own directive which adds a custom validation function to the `ngModel` {@link ngModel.NgModelController controller}.
-To get a hold of the controller the directive specifies a dependency as shown in the example below.
-The validation can occur in two places:
+You can define your own validator by defining a directive which adds a validation function to the `ngModel` {@link ngModel.NgModelController controller}.
+The directive can get ahold of `ngModel` by specifying `require: 'ngModel'` in the directive definition.
+See below for an example.
+
+Validation runs in two places:
 
   * **Model to View update** -
-    Whenever the bound model changes, all functions in {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$formatters NgModelController#$formatters} array are pipe-lined, so that each of these functions has an opportunity to format the value and change validity state of the form control through {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$setValidity NgModelController#$setValidity}.
+    The functions in {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$formatters `NgModelController.$formatters`} are pipelined.
+    Whenever the bound model changes, each of these functions has an opportunity to format the value and change validity state of the form control through {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$setValidity `NgModelController.$setValidity`}.
 
   * **View to Model update** -
-    In a similar way, whenever a user interacts with a control it calls {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$setViewValue NgModelController#$setViewValue}.
-This in turn pipelines all functions in the {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$parsers NgModelController#$parsers} array, so that each of these functions has an opportunity to convert the value and change validity state of the form control through {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$setValidity NgModelController#$setValidity}.
+    In a similar way, whenever a user interacts with a control it calls {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$setViewValue `NgModelController.$setViewValue`}.
+
+This in turn runs all functions in the {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$parsers `NgModelController.$parsers`} array as a pipeline. Each function in `$parsers` has an opportunity to convert the value and change validity state of the form control through {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$setValidity `NgModelController.$setValidity`}.
 
 In the following example we create two directives.
 
@@ -366,10 +370,10 @@ However, if you need more flexibility, you can write your own form control as a
 
 In order for custom control to work with `ngModel` and to achieve two-way data-binding it needs to:
 
-  - implement `$render` method, which is responsible for rendering the data after it passed the {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$formatters NgModelController#$formatters},
+  - implement `$render` method, which is responsible for rendering the data after it passed the {@link ngModel.NgModelController#$formatters `NgModelController.$formatters`},
   - call `$setViewValue` method, whenever the user interacts with the control and model needs to be updated. This is usually done inside a DOM Event listener.
 
-See {@link guide/directive $compileProvider.directive} for more info.
+See {@link guide/directive `$compileProvider.directive`} for more info.
 
 The following example shows how to add two-way data-binding to contentEditable elements.