diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/TeTeX-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/TeTeX-HOWTO.sgml
index ad2bcb93..deba8733 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/TeTeX-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/TeTeX-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ soft fonts which will be downloaded to the LaserJet.  This is
 <tt>dvilj2</tt>.  Other <tt>.dvi</tt> drivers provide features that
 are relevant to the devices they support.  <tt>dvilj2</tt> tries to
 fill the font requests which were made in the original LaTeX document
-with the the closest equivalents available on the system.  In the case
+with the closest equivalents available on the system.  In the case
 of a plain text document like <tt>TETEXDOC.tex</tt>, there isn't much
 difficulty.  All of the fonts requested by <tt>TETEXDOC.tex</tt> will
 be generated by <tt>metafont</tt>, which is automatically invoked by