diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
index bb8a363c11..55c6d9cf1f 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
@@ -565,14 +565,14 @@ print communication with shell backends
 .B 2048
 .B (0x800 parse)
 entry parsing
-.TP
-.B 4096
-.B (0x1000 cache)
-caching (unused)
-.TP
-.B 8192
-.B (0x2000 index)
-data indexing (unused)
+\".TP
+\".B 4096
+\".B (0x1000 cache)
+\"caching (unused)
+\".TP
+\".B 8192
+\".B (0x2000 index)
+\"data indexing (unused)
 .TP
 .B 16384
 .B (0x4000 sync)