diff --git a/man3/crypt.3 b/man3/crypt.3
index c79f9cd34..c972e61f0 100644
--- a/man3/crypt.3
+++ b/man3/crypt.3
@@ -257,20 +257,23 @@ The following values of
 are supported:
 .RS
 .TS
-l l.
-ID  | Method
+lb lb
+l lx.
+ID	Method
 _
-1   | MD5
-2a  | Blowfish (not in mainline glibc; added in some
-    | Linux distributions)
+1	MD5
+2a	T{
+Blowfish (not in mainline glibc; added in some
+Linux distributions)
+T}
 .\" openSUSE has Blowfish, but AFAICS, this option is not supported
 .\" natively by glibc -- mtk, Jul 08
 .\"
 .\" md5 | Sun MD5
 .\" glibc doesn't appear to natively support Sun MD5; I don't know
 .\" if any distros add the support.
-5   | SHA-256 (since glibc 2.7)
-6   | SHA-512 (since glibc 2.7)
+5	SHA-256 (since glibc 2.7)
+6	SHA-512 (since glibc 2.7)
 .TE
 .RE
 .PP
@@ -283,13 +286,15 @@ following "$\fIid\fP$" in the salt.
 The "\fIencrypted\fP"
 part of the password string is the actual computed password.
 The size of this string is fixed:
+.RS
 .TS
-l l.
-MD5     | 22 characters
-SHA-256 | 43 characters
-SHA-512 | 86 characters
+lb l.
+MD5	22 characters
+SHA-256	43 characters
+SHA-512	86 characters
 .TE
-.sp 1
+.RE
+.PP
 The characters in "\fIsalt\fP" and "\fIencrypted\fP" are drawn from the set
 [\fBa\-zA\-Z0\-9./\fP].
 In the MD5 and SHA implementations the entire