diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7
index a2a14985d..b58728ab2 100644
--- a/man7/signal.7
+++ b/man7/signal.7
@@ -84,12 +84,13 @@ or catch the signal with a
 .IR "signal handler" ,
 a programmer-defined function that is automatically invoked
 when the signal is delivered.
-(By default, the signal handler is invoked on the
+.PP
+By default, a signal handler is invoked on the
 normal process stack.
 It is possible to arrange that the signal handler
 uses an alternate stack; see
 .BR sigaltstack (2)
-for a discussion of how to do this and when it might be useful.)
+for a discussion of how to do this and when it might be useful.
 .PP
 The signal disposition is a per-process attribute:
 in a multithreaded application, the disposition of a