diff --git a/src/lib/libutil/ber_get_string.3 b/src/lib/libutil/ber_get_string.3
index 16251c18..f2bd6210 100644
--- a/src/lib/libutil/ber_get_string.3
+++ b/src/lib/libutil/ber_get_string.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ber_get_string.3,v 1.6 2019/08/14 17:21:42 martijn Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ber_get_string.3,v 1.7 2019/08/14 17:36:04 jmc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2007, 2012 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
 .\"
@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ and
 .Sq t ,
 the type of the element is not checked.
 For
-.Sq p ,
+.Sq p
 and
-.Sq t
+.Sq t ,
 the pointer is not incremented to the next element.
 For
 .Sq e ,