diff --git a/man3/dlopen.3 b/man3/dlopen.3
index c24053048..faea62c37 100644
--- a/man3/dlopen.3
+++ b/man3/dlopen.3
@@ -436,7 +436,8 @@ section of the original object (which dispatches the call after
 asking the dynamic linker to resolve the symbol).
 To work this around, you can try to compile the code to be
 position-independent
-.RI ( "cc -fPIC" ): then, the compiler cannot prepare the pointer
+.RI ( "cc -fPIC" ):
+then, the compiler cannot prepare the pointer
 at compile time anymore and today's
 .BR gcc (1)
 will just load the final symbol address from the