diff --git a/man1/getent.1 b/man1/getent.1
index f638b428c..3d9fcfa71 100644
--- a/man1/getent.1
+++ b/man1/getent.1
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ Print the version number, license, and disclaimer of warranty for
 One of the following exit values can be returned by
 .BR getent :
 .RS 3
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .B 0
 Command completed successfully.
 .TP
diff --git a/man1/localedef.1 b/man1/localedef.1
index b3b5cbc7b..72b7518f4 100644
--- a/man1/localedef.1
+++ b/man1/localedef.1
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ Print the version number, license, and disclaimer of warranty for
 One of the following exit values can be returned by
 .BR localedef :
 .RS 3
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .B 0
 Command completed successfully.
 .TP
diff --git a/man2/clock_nanosleep.2 b/man2/clock_nanosleep.2
index 4c7393d40..e7047b928 100644
--- a/man2/clock_nanosleep.2
+++ b/man2/clock_nanosleep.2
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ The
 argument specifies the clock against which the sleep interval
 is to be measured.
 This argument can have one of the following values:
-.TP 17
+.TP
 .BR CLOCK_REALTIME
 A settable system-wide real-time clock.
 .TP
diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index 322761635..bb1ac1f5d 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ the following bits:
 .PP
 .RS
 .PD 0
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .B DN_ACCESS
 A file was accessed
 .RB ( read (2),
@@ -1627,7 +1627,7 @@ All the write-specific hints are relative to each other,
 and no individual absolute meaning should be attributed to them.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 For a successful call, the return value depends on the operation:
-.TP 0.9i
+.TP
 .B F_DUPFD
 The new file descriptor.
 .TP
diff --git a/man2/getitimer.2 b/man2/getitimer.2
index baa02f3be..03931cd13 100644
--- a/man2/getitimer.2
+++ b/man2/getitimer.2
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Three types of timers\(emspecified via the
 argument\(emare provided,
 each of which counts against a different clock and
 generates a different signal on timer expiration:
-.TP 1.5i
+.TP
 .B ITIMER_REAL
 This timer counts down in real (i.e., wall clock) time.
 At each expiration, a
diff --git a/man2/getsockopt.2 b/man2/getsockopt.2
index b3630099d..715670670 100644
--- a/man2/getsockopt.2
+++ b/man2/getsockopt.2
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Netfilter allows the programmer
 to define custom socket options with associated handlers; for such
 options, the return value on success is the value returned by the handler.
 .SH ERRORS
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .B EBADF
 The argument
 .I sockfd
diff --git a/man2/inotify_init.2 b/man2/inotify_init.2
index a87dff460..2ca823c6e 100644
--- a/man2/inotify_init.2
+++ b/man2/inotify_init.2
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ is the same as
 The following values can be bitwise ORed in
 .IR flags
 to obtain different behavior:
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .B IN_NONBLOCK
 Set the
 .BR O_NONBLOCK
diff --git a/man2/ioctl.2 b/man2/ioctl.2
index fc96f3bce..d4f4aca38 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl.2
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ On error, \-1 is returned, and
 .I errno
 is set appropriately.
 .SH ERRORS
-.TP 0.7i
+.TP
 .B EBADF
 .I fd
 is not a valid file descriptor.
diff --git a/man2/mlock.2 b/man2/mlock.2
index 62b9d2425..1e3d13257 100644
--- a/man2/mlock.2
+++ b/man2/mlock.2
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ The
 .I flags
 argument is constructed as the bitwise OR of one or more of the
 following constants:
-.TP 1.2i
+.TP
 .B MCL_CURRENT
 Lock all pages which are currently mapped into the address space of
 the process.
diff --git a/man2/mprotect.2 b/man2/mprotect.2
index f96b41560..a1d8c115c 100644
--- a/man2/mprotect.2
+++ b/man2/mprotect.2
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ signal for the process.
 is a combination of the following access flags:
 .B PROT_NONE
 or a bitwise-or of the other values in the following list:
-.TP 1.1i
+.TP
 .B PROT_NONE
 The memory cannot be accessed at all.
 .TP
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ and it is available on POWER 7 or PowerPC A2, for example).
 Additionally (since Linux 2.6.0),
 .I prot
 can have one of the following flags set:
-.TP 1.1i
+.TP
 .\" mm/mmap.c:
 .\"	vm_flags |= calc_vm_prot_bits(prot, pkey) | calc_vm_flag_bits(flags) |
 .\"			mm->def_flags | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC;
diff --git a/man2/quotactl.2 b/man2/quotactl.2
index 387b791ef..a929db417 100644
--- a/man2/quotactl.2
+++ b/man2/quotactl.2
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ is given with each operation below.
 The
 .I subcmd
 value is one of the following operations:
-.TP 8
+.TP
 .B Q_QUOTAON
 Turn on quotas for a filesystem.
 The
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ operation.
 .IP
 This operation requires privilege
 .RB ( CAP_SYS_ADMIN ).
-.TP 8
+.TP
 .B Q_QUOTAOFF
 Turn off quotas for a filesystem.
 The
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ carry the information instead.
 .PP
 For XFS filesystems making use of the XFS Quota Manager (XQM),
 the above operations are bypassed and the following operations are used:
-.TP 8
+.TP
 .B Q_XQUOTAON
 Turn on quotas for an XFS filesystem.
 XFS provides the ability to turn on/off quota limit enforcement
diff --git a/man2/s390_sthyi.2 b/man2/s390_sthyi.2
index 3b4226f7c..06ecf9043 100644
--- a/man2/s390_sthyi.2
+++ b/man2/s390_sthyi.2
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The
 .I return_code
 argument stores the return code of the STHYI instruction,
 using one of the following values:
-.TP 8
+.TP
 0
 Success.
 .TP
diff --git a/man2/semctl.2 b/man2/semctl.2
index 6fd0abc07..5f9699b02 100644
--- a/man2/semctl.2
+++ b/man2/semctl.2
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ struct ipc_perm {
 Valid values for
 .I cmd
 are:
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .B IPC_STAT
 Copy information from the kernel data structure associated with
 .I semid
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ indicating the error.
 Otherwise, the system call returns a nonnegative value depending on
 .I cmd
 as follows:
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .B GETNCNT
 the value of
 .BR semncnt .
diff --git a/man2/shmctl.2 b/man2/shmctl.2
index bd7df1aa0..f05ad06b2 100644
--- a/man2/shmctl.2
+++ b/man2/shmctl.2
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct ipc_perm {
 Valid values for
 .I cmd
 are:
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .B IPC_STAT
 Copy information from the kernel data structure associated with
 .I shmid
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ See also the description of
 .I  /proc/sys/kernel/shm_rmid_forced
 in
 .BR proc (5).
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .BR IPC_INFO " (Linux-specific)"
 Return information about system-wide shared memory limits and
 parameters in the structure pointed to by
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ to obtain the same information).
 .PP
 The caller can prevent or allow swapping of a shared
 memory segment with the following \fIcmd\fP values:
-.TP 10
+.T
 .BR SHM_LOCK " (Linux-specific)"
 Prevent swapping of the shared memory segment.
 The caller must fault in
diff --git a/man2/shmget.2 b/man2/shmget.2
index 469c8593c..987d5fb61 100644
--- a/man2/shmget.2
+++ b/man2/shmget.2
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ for
 The value
 .I shmflg
 is composed of:
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .B IPC_CREAT
 Create a new segment.
 If this flag is not used, then
diff --git a/man2/wait.2 b/man2/wait.2
index f3a960bbd..4c2eed660 100644
--- a/man2/wait.2
+++ b/man2/wait.2
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ value of
 The value of
 .I options
 is an OR of zero or more of the following constants:
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .B WNOHANG
 return immediately if no child has exited.
 .TP
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ is ignored.
 The child state changes to wait for are specified by ORing
 one or more of the following flags in
 .IR options :
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .B WEXITED
 Wait for children that have terminated.
 .TP
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ resumed by delivery of
 .PP
 The following flags may additionally be ORed in
 .IR options :
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .B WNOHANG
 As for
 .BR waitpid ().
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ fills in the following fields of the
 .I siginfo_t
 structure pointed to by
 .IR infop :
-.TP 12
+.TP
 \fIsi_pid\fP
 The process ID of the child.
 .TP
diff --git a/man3/CPU_SET.3 b/man3/CPU_SET.3
index f8975a3ed..ff4ac358b 100644
--- a/man3/CPU_SET.3
+++ b/man3/CPU_SET.3
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ described in this page.
 .PP
 The following macros are provided to operate on the CPU set
 .IR set :
-.TP 17
+.TP
 .BR CPU_ZERO ()
 Clears
 .IR set ,
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ number that can be stored in
 .IR cpu_set_t .
 .PP
 The following macros perform logical operations on CPU sets:
-.TP 17
+.TP
 .BR CPU_AND ()
 Store the intersection of the sets
 .I srcset1
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ defined by the standard
 data type), glibc nowadays provides a set of macros to support this.
 .PP
 The following macros are used to allocate and deallocate CPU sets:
-.TP 17
+.TP
 .BR CPU_ALLOC ()
 Allocate a CPU set large enough to hold CPUs
 in the range 0 to
diff --git a/man3/aio_init.3 b/man3/aio_init.3
index f37f69368..1ff9514e3 100644
--- a/man3/aio_init.3
+++ b/man3/aio_init.3
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct aioinit {
 The following fields are used in the
 .I aioinit
 structure:
-.TP 15
+.TP
 .I aio_threads
 This field specifies the maximum number of worker threads that
 may be used by the implementation.
diff --git a/man3/des_crypt.3 b/man3/des_crypt.3
index 3aa056b45..9c354da1c 100644
--- a/man3/des_crypt.3
+++ b/man3/des_crypt.3
@@ -104,8 +104,7 @@ vector for the chaining.
 It is updated to the next initialization
 vector upon return.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
-.PD 0
-.TP 20
+.TP
 .BR DESERR_NONE
 No error.
 .TP
@@ -117,7 +116,6 @@ An error occurred in the hardware or driver.
 .TP
 .BR DESERR_BADPARAM
 Bad argument to routine.
-.PD
 .PP
 Given a result status
 .IR stat ,
diff --git a/man3/fmemopen.3 b/man3/fmemopen.3
index b8d019521..f5cca25f3 100644
--- a/man3/fmemopen.3
+++ b/man3/fmemopen.3
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The
 .I mode
 argument specifies the semantics of I/O on the stream,
 and is one of the following:
-.TP 8
+.TP
 .I r
 The stream is opened for reading.
 .TP
diff --git a/man3/fopencookie.3 b/man3/fopencookie.3
index 7c78edf6c..ece4fa965 100644
--- a/man3/fopencookie.3
+++ b/man3/fopencookie.3
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ argument specifies the new file offset depending on which
 of the following three values is supplied in
 .IR whence :
 .RS
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .B SEEK_SET
 The stream offset should be set
 .I *offset
diff --git a/man3/fts.3 b/man3/fts.3
index e15f308eb..374bb2def 100644
--- a/man3/fts.3
+++ b/man3/fts.3
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ typedef struct _ftsent {
 .PP
 These fields are defined as follows:
 .\" .Bl -tag -width "fts_namelen"
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .IR fts_info
 One of the following values describing the returned
 .I FTSENT
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ all of these
 entries are terminal, that is, they will not be revisited, nor will any
 of their descendants be visited.
 .\" .Bl  -tag -width FTS_DEFAULT
-.RS 12
-.TP 12
+.RS
+.TP
 .BR FTS_D
 A directory being visited in preorder.
 .TP
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ must be specified.
 The options are selected by ORing
 the following values:
 .\" .Bl -tag -width "FTS_PHYSICAL"
-.TP 14
+.TP
 .BR FTS_COMFOLLOW
 This option causes any symbolic link specified as a root path to be
 followed immediately whether or not
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ The
 .I instr
 argument is either zero or the following value:
 .\" .Bl -tag -width FTS_NAMEONLY
-.TP 13
+.TP
 .BR FTS_NAMEONLY
 Only the names of the files are needed.
 The contents of all the fields in the returned linked list of structures
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ The
 .I instr
 argument is either 0 (meaning "do nothing") or one of the following values:
 .\" .Bl -tag -width FTS_PHYSICAL
-.TP 13
+.TP
 .BR FTS_AGAIN
 Revisit the file; any file type may be revisited.
 The next call to
diff --git a/man3/getaddrinfo.3 b/man3/getaddrinfo.3
index 80488ec50..2b6ac671e 100644
--- a/man3/getaddrinfo.3
+++ b/man3/getaddrinfo.3
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ and
 specify criteria that limit the set of socket addresses returned by
 .BR getaddrinfo (),
 as follows:
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .I ai_family
 This field specifies the desired address family for the returned addresses.
 Valid values for this field include
diff --git a/man3/getrpcent.3 b/man3/getrpcent.3
index 191e31c7d..932e67569 100644
--- a/man3/getrpcent.3
+++ b/man3/getrpcent.3
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ struct rpcent {
 .in
 .PP
 The members of this structure are:
-.RS 4
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .I r_name
 The name of the server for this RPC program.
 .TP
@@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ A NULL-terminated list of alternate names for the RPC program.
 .TP
 .I r_number
 The RPC program number for this service.
-.RE
 .PP
 The
 .BR getrpcent ()
diff --git a/man3/lio_listio.3 b/man3/lio_listio.3
index 1b6639e5b..325112320 100644
--- a/man3/lio_listio.3
+++ b/man3/lio_listio.3
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ function initiates the list of I/O operations described by the array
 The
 .I mode
 operation has one of the following values:
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .B LIO_WAIT
 The call blocks until all operations are complete.
 The
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ In each control block in
 the
 .I aio_lio_opcode
 field specifies the I/O operation to be initiated, as follows:
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .BR LIO_READ
 Initiate a read operation.
 The operation is queued as for a call to
diff --git a/man3/posix_spawn.3 b/man3/posix_spawn.3
index 11241e46c..753cc4023 100644
--- a/man3/posix_spawn.3
+++ b/man3/posix_spawn.3
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ to be used during those actions.
 The effects of the flags that may be specified in
 .IR spawn-flags
 are as follows:
-.TP 8
+.TP
 .B POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK
 Set the signal mask to the signal set specified in the
 .I spawn-sigmask
diff --git a/man3/shm_open.3 b/man3/shm_open.3
index 95bc7cb45..39ca9e261 100644
--- a/man3/shm_open.3
+++ b/man3/shm_open.3
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ is a bit mask created by ORing together exactly one of
 or
 .B O_RDWR
 and any of the other flags listed here:
-.TP 1.1i
+.TP
 .B O_RDONLY
 Open the object for read access.
 A shared memory object opened in this way can be
diff --git a/man4/st.4 b/man4/st.4
index 51ea7f9d3..21c623442 100644
--- a/man4/st.4
+++ b/man4/st.4
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ struct mtop {
 .in
 .PP
 Magnetic Tape operations for normal tape use:
-.TP 14
+.TP
 .B MTBSF
 Backward space over
 .I mt_count
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ Write
 setmarks.
 .PP
 Magnetic Tape operations for setting of device options (by the superuser):
-.TP 8
+.TP
 .B MTSETDRVBUFFER
 Set various drive and driver options according to bits encoded in
 .IR mt_count .
@@ -706,7 +706,8 @@ struct mtget {
 };
 .EE
 .in
-.IP \fImt_type\fP 11
+.TP
+\fImt_type\fP
 The header file defines many values for
 .IR mt_type ,
 but the current driver reports only the generic types
@@ -715,9 +716,11 @@ but the current driver reports only the generic types
 and
 .B MT_ISSCSI2
 (Generic SCSI-2 tape).
-.IP \fImt_resid\fP
+.TP
+\fImt_resid\fP
 contains the current tape partition number.
-.IP \fImt_dsreg\fP
+.TP
+\fImt_dsreg\fP
 reports the drive's current settings for block size (in the low 24
 bits) and density (in the high 8 bits).
 These fields are defined by
@@ -726,7 +729,8 @@ These fields are defined by
 .BR MT_ST_DENSITY_SHIFT ,
 and
 .BR MT_ST_DENSITY_MASK .
-.IP \fImt_gstat\fP
+.TP
+\fImt_gstat\fP
 reports generic (device independent) status information.
 The header file defines macros for testing these status bits:
 .RS
@@ -784,7 +788,8 @@ the drive is set not to buffer data.
 The drive has requested cleaning.
 Implemented in kernels since 2.4.19 and 2.5.43.
 .RE
-.IP \fImt_erreg\fP
+.TP
+\fImt_erreg\fP
 The only field defined in
 .I mt_erreg
 is the recovered error count in the low 16 bits (as defined by
@@ -794,13 +799,15 @@ and
 Due to inconsistencies in the way drives report recovered errors, this
 count is often not maintained (most drives do not by default report
 soft errors but this can be changed with a SCSI MODE SELECT command).
-.IP \fImt_fileno\fP
+.TP
+\fImt_fileno\fP
 reports the current file number (zero-based).
 This value is set to \-1 when the file number is unknown (e.g., after
 .BR MTBSS
 or
 .BR MTSEEK ).
-.IP \fImt_blkno\fP
+.TP
+\fImt_blkno\fP
 reports the block number (zero-based) within the current file.
 This value is set to \-1 when the block number is unknown (e.g., after
 .BR MTBSF ,
@@ -831,7 +838,6 @@ struct mtpos {
 .EE
 .in
 .SH RETURN VALUE
-.TP 14
 .TP
 .B EACCES
 An attempt was made to write or erase a write-protected tape.
diff --git a/man5/elf.5 b/man5/elf.5
index 0b6e3227d..b41a2bfa8 100644
--- a/man5/elf.5
+++ b/man5/elf.5
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ typedef struct {
 .PP
 The fields have the following meanings:
 .\"
-.nr l1_indent 10
+.nr l1_indent 7
 .\"
 .TP \n[l1_indent]
 .IR e_ident
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ and may contain values which start with the prefix
 .BR ELF .
 The following macros are defined:
 .RS
-.TP 9
+.TP
 .BR EI_MAG0
 The first byte of the magic number.
 It must be filled with
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ Otherwise, the
 .IR sh_info
 member of the initial entry contains the value zero.
 .RS \n[l1_indent]
-.TP 9
+.TP
 .BR PN_XNUM
 This is defined as 0xffff, the largest number
 .IR e_phnum
@@ -669,12 +669,12 @@ The main difference between the 32-bit and the 64-bit program header lies
 in the location of the
 .IR p_flags
 member in the total struct.
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .IR p_type
 This member of the structure indicates what kind of segment this array
 element describes or how to interpret the array element's information.
 .RS 10
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .BR PT_NULL
 The array element is unused and the other members' values are undefined.
 This lets the program header have ignored entries.
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ It may be zero.
 .TP
 .IR p_flags
 This member holds a bit mask of flags relevant to the segment:
-.RS \n[l1_indent]
+.RS
 .TP
 .PD 0
 .BR PF_X
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ a null-terminated string.
 .IR sh_type
 This member categorizes the section's contents and semantics.
 .RS \n[l1_indent]
-.TP 15
+.TP
 .BR SHT_NULL
 This value marks the section header as inactive.
 It does not
@@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ Otherwise, the attribute is
 or does not apply.
 Undefined attributes are set to zero.
 .RS \n[l1_indent]
-.TP 15
+.TP
 .BR SHF_WRITE
 This section contains data that should be writable during process
 execution.
@@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ has no size or an unknown size.
 .IR st_info
 This member specifies the symbol's type and binding attributes:
 .RS \n[l1_indent]
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .BR STT_NOTYPE
 The symbol's type is not defined.
 .TP
@@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@ value.
 .IR st_other
 This member defines the symbol visibility.
 .RS \n[l1_indent]
-.TP 16
+.TP
 .PD 0
 .BR STV_DEFAULT
 Default symbol visibility rules.
diff --git a/man5/group.5 b/man5/group.5
index c8222675c..94f7bf701 100644
--- a/man5/group.5
+++ b/man5/group.5
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ group_name:password:GID:user_list
 .in
 .PP
 The fields are as follows:
-.TP 12
+.TP
 .I group_name
 the name of the group.
 .TP
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index ff7254d68..fa37731b7 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ Offset field in the ELF program headers
 .RI ( "readelf\ \-l" ).
 .IP
 There are additional helpful pseudo-paths:
-.RS 12
+.RS
 .TP
 .IR [stack]
 The initial process's (also known as the main thread's) stack.
@@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ This file shows the mapping of each of the process's virtual pages
 into physical page frames or swap area.
 It contains one 64-bit value for each virtual page,
 with the bits set as follows:
-.RS 12
+.RS
 .TP
 63
 If set, the page is present in RAM.
diff --git a/man5/services.5 b/man5/services.5
index d3f20cc4a..fe345c6d0 100644
--- a/man5/services.5
+++ b/man5/services.5
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Each line describes one service, and is of the form:
 \f2service-name\ \ \ port\f3/\f2protocol\ \ \ \f1[\f2aliases ...\f1]
 .TP
 where:
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .I service-name
 is the friendly name the service is known by and looked up under.
 It is case sensitive.
diff --git a/man7/aio.7 b/man7/aio.7
index 72c40b576..561c32efb 100644
--- a/man7/aio.7
+++ b/man7/aio.7
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ by delivery of a signal, by instantiation of a thread,
 or no notification at all.
 .PP
 The POSIX AIO interface consists of the following functions:
-.TP 16
+.TP
 .BR aio_read (3)
 Enqueue a read request.
 This is the asynchronous analog of
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ enum { LIO_READ, LIO_WRITE, LIO_NOP };
 .in
 .PP
 The fields of this structure are as follows:
-.TP 16
+.TP
 .I aio_fildes
 The file descriptor on which the I/O operation is to be performed.
 .TP
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ The type of operation to be performed; used only for
 .PP
 In addition to the standard functions listed above,
 the GNU C library provides the following extension to the POSIX AIO API:
-.TP 16
+.TP
 .BR aio_init (3)
 Set parameters for tuning the behavior of the glibc POSIX AIO implementation.
 .SH ERRORS
diff --git a/man7/feature_test_macros.7 b/man7/feature_test_macros.7
index 5fff6a2ac..ad0e36ab8 100644
--- a/man7/feature_test_macros.7
+++ b/man7/feature_test_macros.7
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700
 .\" would make for a complicated description.
 .PP
 Linux glibc understands the following feature test macros:
-.TP 8
+.TP
 .B __STRICT_ANSI__
 ISO Standard C.
 This macro is implicitly defined by
diff --git a/man7/keyrings.7 b/man7/keyrings.7
index 3367149ef..88a3847c3 100644
--- a/man7/keyrings.7
+++ b/man7/keyrings.7
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ The optional
 field provides some further information about the key.
 The information that appears here depends on the key type, as follows:
 .RS
-.TP 4
+.TP
 .IR """user""" " and " """logon"""
 The size in bytes of the key payload (expressed in decimal).
 .TP
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ the description field has the form shown in the following example:
 .IP
 The three subfields are as follows:
 .RS
-.TP 5
+.TP
 .I key
 The hexadecimal ID of the key being instantiated in the requesting program.
 .TP
diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
index 106faef6f..6706faef2 100644
--- a/man7/man-pages.7
+++ b/man7/man-pages.7
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ for authors writing man pages for other projects.
 .SS Sections of the manual pages
 .PP
 The manual Sections are traditionally defined as follows:
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .B 1 User commands (Programs)
 Those commands that can be executed by the user from within
 a shell.
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ those sections.
 .PP
 The following list elaborates on the contents of each of
 the above sections.
-.TP 14
+.TP
 .B NAME
 The name of this manual page.
 .IP
diff --git a/man7/sigevent.7 b/man7/sigevent.7
index 3333ddb77..8829aa8af 100644
--- a/man7/sigevent.7
+++ b/man7/sigevent.7
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The
 .I sigev_notify
 field specifies how notification is to be performed.
 This field can have one of the following values:
-.TP 8
+.TP
 .BR SIGEV_NONE
 A "null" notification: don't do anything when the event occurs.
 .TP
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ If the signal is caught with a signal handler that was registered using the
 flag, then the following fields are set in the
 .I siginfo_t
 structure that is passed as the second argument of the handler:
-.RS 8
+.RS
 .TP 10
 .I si_code
 This field is set to a value that depends on the API
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index fbde74f1e..b1f132e32 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ available memory.
 for this, which is limited to around 900 megabytes on 32-bit systems.
 64-bit systems do not suffer this limitation.)
 .RS
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .I low
 TCP doesn't regulate its memory allocation when the number
 of pages it has allocated globally is below this number.
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ TCP dynamically adjusts the size of the
 receive buffer from the defaults listed below, in the range
 of these values, depending on memory available in the system.
 .RS
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .I min
 minimum size of the receive buffer used by each TCP socket.
 The default value is the system page size.
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ TCP dynamically adjusts the size of the send buffer from the
 default values listed below, in the range of these values,
 depending on memory available.
 .RS
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .I min
 Minimum size of the send buffer used by each TCP socket.
 The default value is the system page size.
diff --git a/man7/udp.7 b/man7/udp.7
index 06e5e3825..ac286f438 100644
--- a/man7/udp.7
+++ b/man7/udp.7
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ System-wide UDP parameter settings can be accessed by files in the directory
 This is a vector of three integers governing the number
 of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
 .RS
-.TP 10
+.TP
 .I min
 Below this number of pages, UDP is not bothered about its
 memory appetite.