3 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.1
index ffee4d953255b..93be989e88410 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.1
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ the library search path.
 .It Fl M
 Produce output about the mapping of segments of the input files and the
 values assigned to
-.Pq global
+(global)
 symbols in the output file.
 .It Fl N
 Produce a
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ to be marked as undefined. Useful to force loading of an archive member
 in the absence of any other references to that member.
 .It Fl V Ar version
 Put the given version number into the output shared library
-.Pq if one is created .
+(if one is created).
 Useful to make shared libraries compatible with other operating
 systems. E.g., SunOS 4.x libraries use version number 3. Defaults to 8.
 .It Fl X
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.1aout b/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.1aout
index 186a75b623974..3f7145557e54b 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.1aout
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ld.1aout
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ the library search path.
 .It Fl M
 Produce output about the mapping of segments of the input files and the
 values assigned to
-.Pq global
+(global)
 symbols in the output file.
 .It Fl N
 Produce a
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ to be marked as undefined. Useful to force loading of an archive member
 in the absence of any other references to that member.
 .It Fl V Ar version
 Put the given version number into the output shared library
-.Pq if one is created .
+(if one is created).
 Useful to make shared libraries compatible with other operating
 systems. E.g., SunOS 4.x libraries use version number 3. Defaults to 8.
 .It Fl X
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/man/makewhatis/makewhatis.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/man/makewhatis/makewhatis.1
index 19615ba3ebe24..75c2f290179fb 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/man/makewhatis/makewhatis.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/man/makewhatis/makewhatis.1
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ database.
 can read gzip'ed manpages.
 .Ar Directory
 names a directory containing manpage subdirectories
-.Pq named Pa man.+ .
+(named
+.Pa man.+ ) .
 Colons are treated as spaces, hence
 .Ic makewhatis $MANPATH
 or
@@ -66,7 +67,8 @@ does not check if old entries are valid.
 Print options and exit.
 .It Fl i , Fl indent Ar column
 Justify description strings to
-.Ar column Pq default 24 .
+.Ar column
+(default 24).
 .It Fl L , Fl locale
 Sense locale environment variables for possible localized man subdirectories
 and process this entries only.
@@ -82,7 +84,7 @@ instead of
 .Pa dirname/whatis Ns .
 .It Fl v , Fl verbose
 Issue more warnings
-.Pq to stderr .
+(to stderr).
 For every parsed man page write a single char:
 .Ql .\&
 for an uncompressed page,