diff --git a/doc/manual/packages/profiles.xml b/doc/manual/packages/profiles.xml
index 15085ab58..2809def24 100644
--- a/doc/manual/packages/profiles.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/packages/profiles.xml
@@ -21,19 +21,16 @@ The long strings prefixed to the directory names are cryptographic
 hashes<footnote><para>160-bit truncations of SHA-256 hashes encoded in
 a base-32 notation, to be precise.</para></footnote> of
 <emphasis>all</emphasis> inputs involved in building the package —
-sources, dependencies, compiler flags, and so on.  So if two
-packages differ in any way, they end up in different locations in
-the file system, so they don’t interfere with each other.  <xref
-linkend='fig-user-environments' /> shows a part of a typical Nix
-store.</para>
+sources, dependencies, compiler flags, and so on.  So if two packages
+differ in any way, they end up in different locations in the file
+system, so they don’t interfere with each other.  Here is what a part
+of a typical Nix store looks like:</para>
 
-<figure xml:id='fig-user-environments'><title>User environments</title>
-  <mediaobject>
-    <imageobject>
-      <imagedata fileref='../figures/user-environments.png' format='PNG' />
-    </imageobject>
-  </mediaobject>
-</figure>
+<mediaobject>
+  <imageobject>
+    <imagedata fileref='../figures/user-environments.png' format='PNG' />
+  </imageobject>
+</mediaobject>
 
 <para>Of course, you wouldn’t want to type
 
@@ -50,10 +47,10 @@ uses is to create directory trees of symlinks to
 <emphasis>user environments</emphasis> and they are packages
 themselves (though automatically generated by
 <command>nix-env</command>), so they too reside in the Nix store.  For
-instance, in <xref linkend='fig-user-environments' /> the user
-environment <filename>/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env</filename>
-contains a symlink to just Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure
-indicate symlinks).  This would be what we would obtain if we had done
+instance, in the figure above, the user environment
+<filename>/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env</filename> contains a
+symlink to just Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure indicate
+symlinks).  This would be what we would obtain if we had done
 
 <screen>
 $ nix-env -i subversion</screen>
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/package-management/profiles.md b/doc/manual/src/package-management/profiles.md
index 984afca55..9076033d7 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/package-management/profiles.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/package-management/profiles.md
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ strings prefixed to the directory names are cryptographic hashes\[1\] of
 *all* inputs involved in building the package — sources, dependencies,
 compiler flags, and so on. So if two packages differ in any way, they
 end up in different locations in the file system, so they don’t
-interfere with each other. [figure\_title](#fig-user-environments) shows
-a part of a typical Nix store.
+interfere with each other. Here is what a part of a typical Nix store
+looks like:
 
-![User environments](../figures/user-environments.png)
+![](../figures/user-environments.png)
 
 Of course, you wouldn’t want to type
 
@@ -30,11 +30,10 @@ package we want to use, but this is not very convenient since changing
 Nix uses is to create directory trees of symlinks to *activated*
 packages. These are called *user environments* and they are packages
 themselves (though automatically generated by `nix-env`), so they too
-reside in the Nix store. For instance, in
-[figure\_title](#fig-user-environments) the user environment
-`/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env` contains a symlink to just
-Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure indicate symlinks). This would be
-what we would obtain if we had done
+reside in the Nix store. For instance, in the figure above, the user
+environment `/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env` contains a symlink to
+just Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure indicate symlinks). This
+would be what we would obtain if we had done
 
     $ nix-env -i subversion