diff --git a/LDP/howto/docbook/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO.xml b/LDP/howto/docbook/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO.xml
index 47aea5a1..413757f0 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/docbook/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO.xml
+++ b/LDP/howto/docbook/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO.xml
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ stylesheet that would tell the formatter "render emphasis as a font
 change to boldface".  One advantage of structural-markup languages
 is that by changing a stylesheet you can globally change the
 presentation of the document (to use different fonts, for example)
-without having to hack all the the individual instances of (say)
+without having to hack all the individual instances of (say)
 <markup>.B</markup> in the document itself.</para>
 
 </sect1>