diff --git a/man2/flock.2 b/man2/flock.2
index 85dfe65c6..e5b8bb696 100644
--- a/man2/flock.2
+++ b/man2/flock.2
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ Apply or remove an advisory lock on the open file specified by
 The parameter
 .I operation
 is one of the following:
-.RS
-.TP 1.0i
+.RS 4
+.TP 9
 .B LOCK_SH
 Place a shared lock.
 More than one process may hold a shared lock for a given file
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ file at a given time.
 .TP
 .B LOCK_UN
 Remove an existing lock held by this process.
-.sp
 .RE
+.PP
 A call to
 .BR flock ()
 may block if an incompatible lock is held by another process.