diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linuxdoc-Reference.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linuxdoc-Reference.sgml
index cb97a266..34876e39 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linuxdoc-Reference.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linuxdoc-Reference.sgml
@@ -1895,7 +1895,7 @@ tag|my translation@<hline>@
 </table>
 
 The index tags serve for making a index of your document.
-They are only useful if you want do do &latex; mapping.
+They are only useful if you want do &latex; mapping.
 They only differ very slightly as mentioned in table
 <ref id="tindex" name="Index elements">.